Chinese companies need to know and use their IP rights

The innovation capacity and intellectual property rights environment of emerging countries, such as China and India, are improving sharply, noted Gan Shaoning, vice-commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office, at an IP forum held last week in Beijing.

But he said that the global development of Chinese companies is "a long-term program that needs much effort". Chinese companies must know and utilize IP-related laws and rules to protect their rights overseas. In order to do this, "the IP administrations must take an active role in encouraging them to protect their rights and tell them how".

In this way, he said, "China will be able to deal with the increasingly severe international competition and let IP-related work become part of its national economic development".