IP scene

Hebei

Trademark festival to be held in Tangshan

The China Trademark Association has decided that Tangshan will be the host city of the 2018 China Trademark Festival, the largest and most influential annual international event for trademarks and brands in the nation. Tangshan is now home to more than 22,000 valid trademarks. It tops Hebei province for the number of geographical indications and ranks No 2 for the number of national-level well-known trademarks.

China radio international

Jiangxi

Ceramics rights training event held

A recent intellectual property practice training session for the ceramics industry attracted more than 100 representatives from the sector. The three-day event was held in world ceramics industry center Jingdezhen. It focused on industrial design and patent filings, IP management and dealing with infringements. It was hosted by the China IP Training Center, and organized by the provincial IP administration and the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.

The Jiangxi IP office

Beijing

Copyright leaders selection event starts

The Copyright Protection Center of China has launched its annual selection of the country's top 10 copyright leaders for 2017. It is open to applications until the end of this year. With the theme of respecting originality and creating a better future, the event encourages creation, copyright commercialization and supply-side reform. The event was first held three years ago.

China intellectual property news

2013-16 enforcement figures released

Enforcement officials investigated more than 120,000 patent disputes across China from 2013 to 2016. Nearly 50,000 of them involved infringements, according to a recent government report. Police nationwide dealt with nearly 40,000 intellectual property criminal cases, which involved more than 67 billion yuan ($10.2 billion) in potential retail value. They seized about 50,000 suspects during the same period.

China radio international

Gansu

Inventions initiative launched in schools

Fifteen schools in the province have together become the first group in a pilot program for intellectual property education, including five in the provincial capital Lanzhou. The provincial and city-level IP administrations will offer financial support to the schools and will award students if they are granted patents. Many schools in the province have launched various IP education initiatives, encouraging student inventions.

Lanzhou daily

Jilin

CRRC's Boston trains to arrive in December

CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles said it has manufactured the first batch of trains for Boston subway's Orange Line, and will deliver them in December. The company won the tender to build 284 trains for the Orange and Red Lines in October 2014, marking the first victory of a Chinese rail equipment manufacturer in public bidding in the US. The new trains are designed with a maximum operational speed of about 100 kilometers per hour.

China News Service

(China Daily 10/19/2017 page16)