National Guidance Center for Handling Overseas IP Disputes

China Has Established the National Guidance Center for Handling Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes

The National Guidance Center for Handling Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes has been established recently in response to the significant increase in overseas intellectual property disputes and lawsuits encountered by Chinese enterprises in their going global.

The center aims to focus on the difficulties and bottlenecks in dealing with overseas intellectual property disputes, build channels for collecting and publishing relevant information at the national level, establish guidance and assistance mechanisms for Chinese enterprises, as well as improve the awareness of dispute prevention and control and the ability to deal with disputes in their efforts to "go global".

The Center was established under the guidance of the Intellectual Property Protection Department of the CNIPA. At the inauguration ceremony held in Beijing two days ago, Gan Shaoning, deputy director of the CNIPA, and Lu Pengqi, deputy director of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) jointly unveiled the center.

Gan hoped that the center would serve as a "server" for enterprises to safeguard their rights overseas, a "loudspeaker" for overseas rules, and a "booster" for enterprises to enhance their ability to go global and develop their intellectual property rights, so as to help more Chinese enterprises to understand, respect and apply the rules of intellectual property systems of other countries and regions and help them better protect and apply overseas intellectual property rights.

Lu Pengqi said that the use of intellectual property rights, compliance and other legal means to carry out competition has increasingly become a common practice of international competitors, especially multinational companies from developed countries. China's overseas intellectual property rights and interests were an important part of China's national interests. As China's largest trade and investment promotion agency, the CCPIT attached great importance to and looked forward to strengthening in-depth cooperation with the CNIPA to jointly serve Chinese enterprises in their overseas rights protection and dispute resolution.

 

 

October 20, 2019

Source: China News Service

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