Asia has become a global powerhouse of innovation and intellectual property rights, which has given a strong boost to the world economy, said the head of the China National Intellectual Property Administration at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province on Wednesday.
National Intellectual Property Publicity Week 2022 kicked off on April 20, with the theme this year to "Comprehensively Boost China's Competitiveness in the Area of Intellectual Property Rights".
CNIPA's years of investment in shaping an IP culture and outreach has paid dividends from the public's rising awareness in respecting and protecting IP to innovators' honed skills in using IP to their advantage.
A geographical indication, or GI, is an identifying label used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.
Shanghai will speed up the processes for small businesses which have used their intellectual property rights to apply for loans, the local intelligence property bureau has announced.
A list of specialized service export bases – covering the fields of human resources, geographic information, intellectual property and language services – was recently released by seven national government departments, including the Ministry of Commerce.
Greater efforts will be made in training intellectual property specialists, the most fundamental, core and critical element in helping China become a global center for intellectual property rights, an official from the country's top IPR regulator has said.
Shanghai in East China has been extending its administrative adjudications of pharm patent infringement disputes in recent years – in so doing, providing a solid guarantee for the city's biomedicines industry so that it can continue to expand.