Jiangsu works out IPR scheme By Bao Xinyan (China Daily) Updated: 2004-08-06 02:07
With a newly established intellectual property rights (IPR) centre, East
China's economic booming Jiangsu Province will soon have an unprecedented IPR
strategy for its next five-year plan to ensure its development is on an ethical
and healthy track.
China Daily has learned the Jiangsu University Intellectual Property Right
Research Institute, set up late in July, is outlining a trailblazing IPR scheme
for its 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10).
According to Tang Heng who works at the institute, she and her colleagues are
keying in on four aspects:creation, protection, utilization and personnel
cultivation in the field of intellectual property rights.
"In the creation of intellectual property rights, for example, we urge
high-tech enterprises to produce their own new products instead of processing
according to others' samples," Tang explained.
"And we also suggest that local governments draft regulations to protect the
intellectual property rights of enterprises, and enterprises put IPR strategies
into their comprehensive development strategy," she said.
A large number of IPR expert personnel are needed for both enterprises and
the government, she added, with plans of cultivating such professionals.
Tang said officials hope to finish the five-year plan outline this September,
and then ask for expert opinions.
The outline will be handed over to an IPR provincial conference this October,
where officials from different government departments will discuss whether to
approve it.
The institute was established by the Science and Technology Department of
Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang.
Its 20 members all come from Jiangsu University, and most are teachers
engaged in IPR research.
Additionally,it has invited many professors, experts and officials to be
members of its academic board, including those from Peking University, Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University, Southeast
University and the Intellectual Property Bureau of Jiangsu Province.
"We will invite more experts to be our academic board members in the future,"
Tang said.
Four research departments have been set up,involving intellectual property
affairs, intellectual property management, intellectual property laws and
intellectual property information.
The first department provides consulting services for enterprises, like
brands and patents application.
The second will counsel enterprises and government on IPR management and
strategy.
The third offers legal consultancy services and will co-operate with the
Nanjing Knowledge Law Office to help those who are in trouble with IPR problems.
And the fourth -- together with the information search centre of Jiangsu
University -- provides information and creates databases for enterprises and
governments.
"Our target is to set up the school of intellectual property in the future,"
Tang said.
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