IP scene

China Daily | Updated: 2018-11-15 08:45

Tianjin

Demonstration park approved

The Tianjin Intellectual Property Office has approved an intellectual property-themed town project in Dongli district, the first of its kind in the city. Construction of the IP-featured Huaming town is due to be completed in October 2020 and will include an IP demonstration industrial park, a technological innovation center and a 100 million ($14.4 million) fund. To date, more than 30 IP administrators, service providers, trade association and financial institutes from Tianjin, Beijing and Europe have been attracted to the project, which will offer services to neighboring regions.

Iprchn.com

Beijing

Court cases grow 30 percent yearly

From the time of its founding in early November 2014 through the end of this October, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court handled nearly 50,740 cases, reporting an average annual growth of 30 percent. Of these, more than 7,000 were about patent disputes, some 70 percent of them involving the National Intellectual Property Administration. During the same period, close to 38,000 cases were settled, with an average annual increase of 50 percent.

Beijing Business Today

Regulations eased for patent agents

A new regulation on patent agents is scheduled to come into effect in March 2019, which will relax the requirements for founding agencies and streamline the procedures for the annual national patent agent examination. The new regulation reflects reduced government intervention in market activities, according to an official from the National Intellectual Property Administration. The current regulation took effect in 1991. By October, nearly 42,570 people gained the qualification to practice as patent agents nationwide.

People's Daily

Guangdong

Trade deals worth 1b yuan reached

During the Guangdong Intellectual Property Trade 2018 meeting, which was held in Guangzhou last week, deals worth more than 1 billion yuan ($144 million) were signed, an increase of 44.72 percent in value from last year. The two-day event attracted some 17,000 visitors and more than 2,527 products were displayed, which involved 311,700 patents.

The Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation

Guizhou

29,000 marks registered in 2018

Nearly 29,600 new trademarks were registered in Guizhou in the first three quarters of this year, enabling the province's total valid trademark inventory to surpass 140,800 by the end of September. Of the total, 63 are well known trademarks and 84 are geographical indication trademarks, 92.86 of them related to agricultural products.

Guizhou Daily