IP scene

Beijing

Customs seizes suspect shipments

The General Administration of Customs announced on Monday that during the first half of this year, customs officers nationwide seized more than 32,000 shipments in foreign trade, involving 7.1 million goods, that were suspected of violating intellectual property rights. Of the seizures, about 4.8 million goods, or 67.6 percent of the total, were suspected to infringe on IP owned by Chinese right holders. Customs officials in Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Ningbo and Xiamen were key forces in the fight against the infringements.

Legal Daily

Civil use of defense IP encouraged

The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the State Intellectual Property Office have recently rolled out a new list to promote the civil use of intellectual property originally intended for national defense. It comprises 276 patents, 61 copyrights and three trademarks, covering various sectors including advanced manufacturing, electronic information, new materials, renewable energy and environmental protection. Since 2015, four such promotion lists have been released.

Economic Daily

Henan

Zhengzhou sets up copyright center

A provincial copyright trading center was unveiled in Zhengzhou last week. The new center will provide copyright services in protection, promotion, registration, exhibition and consultancy, according to its officials. Authorities in the province have increased efforts in fighting piracy and improving its copyright market in recent years and have seen steady growth in the number of locally created copyrighted products.

Dahe Daily

Shaanxi

Xi'an leaders aim to boost innovation

Xi'an, capital of the province, aims to foster 500 national - and provincial-level companies with an edge in intellectual property in three years, local officials said. The city was given the green light in June to establish a national IP protection center. The government will roll out more favorable policies to attract high-level IP service providers, encourage innovation and develop IP-intensive industries, thus boosting the city's sustainable growth, the officials said. From 2013 to 2017, invention patent applications from Xi'an surged 172 percent to nearly 40,440 and invention patents granted during the period rocketed 210 percent to more than 7,900.

Xi'an Evening News

Yunnan

Baoshan hosts agricultural meeting

An international agricultural symposium on technological innovation in Baoshan attracted more than 300 experts and specialists to exchange views on tech progress, agricultural modernization and related policies last week. The attendees were from more than 10 countries, including Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan and France. During the event, they visited mango and coffee plantations, major agribusinesses and an agricultural market.

China News Service

(China Daily 07/26/2018 page17)