IP scene

Beijing

Regulators fight unfair competition

The State Administration for Market Regulation launched a special enforcement operation to fight unfair competition in May, which will last through October. The campaign revolves around the highly-publicized issues of counterfeiting, commercial bribery, infringements of trade secrets and misleading advertising in sectors such as online trading, rural markets, medicines and education. Industrial leaders, well-known trademarks, influential time-honored brands and tech-intensive companies are the most vulnerable groups, enforcement officials said.

People's Daily

Anhui

Rising trademark violations probed

The provincial market supervision administration announced that enforcement officials investigated 2,200 trademark infringements across the province in the first five months of this year, increasing nearly 40 percent from the same period of last year. The total violations were worth more than 6.96 million yuan ($1.1 million) in potential retail value, a surge of 70.4 percent year-on-year. The majority of the investigations were related to well-known trademarks, local officials said.

Anhuinews.com

Guangdong

Events launched to join celebration

In cooperation with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Guangdong plans to launch a series of events to celebrate this year's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day - which will fall on Saturday - as a main venue of the nationwide celebration. They will include a youth cultural heritage contest and a cultural exhibition of the Maritime Silk Road. Since last year, every second Saturday in June is celebrated as Cultural and Natural Heritage Day in China. This year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that more than 3,700 events will be held across the country as part of the celebration.

China Intellectual Property News

Guangxi

Technology market goes live online

A technology market went online in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region recently to facilitate the commercialization of patented technologies. So far, the online platform has attracted more than 3,500 tech experts and specialists in various fields and 57 research and educational institutes, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University and Xiamen University, to share their research achievements and seek partners. Featuring a combination of tech evaluation and e-commerce services, the system will be open to users from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the future.

Science and Technology Daily

Yunnan

Plan rolls out to spur innovation

Yunnan province recently rolled out an intellectual property protection plan for 2016-20, aimed at increasing the quantity and quality of local patents. By 2020, over 60 percent of patents are projected to be industrialized and the local business climate will be improved, due to stronger enforcement capacities and efficiency and improved IP services, according to the plan. The government will give priority support to research in key sectors including biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, tourism, culture, information technology, modern agriculture and logistics, new materials, and advanced manufacturing.

Science and Technology Daily

Overseas

Chinese brands exhibit in Moscow

More than 280 Chinese companies displayed their latest products at the China Commodity Fair, an annual national trade event focusing on China's quality consumer goods, held in Moscow, Russia from May 29 to 31. The exhibits from various provincial-level regions, including Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang and Shanghai included electronics, home appliances, furniture, household decorations and kitchenware. Chinese and Russian voters selected the top 10 Chinese electronics brands and the top 10 brands with most growth potential during the event.

China National Radio

(China Daily 06/07/2018 page17)