2009年7月14日星期二

China's IPR protection progress encourages world: WIPO

China has encouraged
the whole world by making remarkable progress in intellectual property rights
(IPR) protection in a short time, a world IPR body official said Monday.

Francis Gurry, director-general of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), made the remarks in a video

greeting
to the China Intellectual Property Protection Week launched here.

Gurry said China's development in the intellectual
property sector was faster than that of many other countries, which

contributed
to the world's innovation cause.

Gurry's remarks reflected China's persistent efforts
over the past three decades to protect intellectual property, said Tian Lipu,
director of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).

China had established a trademark law system that
suited both China and international regulations, Tian said, adding the

country
had joined six international treaties or conventions concerning trademarks.

Statistics of the SIPO showed the administration had
processed more than 4 million patent applications and registered more than
3million trademarks as of the end of March last year, both ranking in the top
list in the world.

The country had enhanced the protection of
international trademarks in the past years, as more than 530,000 foreign
trademarks from more than 130 countries or regions had been registered in

China
by 2008, Tian said.

The figure was more than 100 times more than the 1979
level, when companies and enterprises from only 20 countries or regions had
registered their trademarks in China.

Tian said China advocated the establishment of the
World Intellectual Property Day on April 26 in 2001, and has organized the
annual event of Intellectual Property Protection Week since 2004.

This year will feature lectures on intellectual
property protection, crackdown on illegal video and audio products as well as

a
white paper on intellectual property protection of China's custom
administrations, according to the official.

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