An intellectual property rights complaint center will be
established in Shanghai in the near future, the major economic
engine of China.
The center will accept complaints and transfer cases to relative
administrations. And it will monitor the handling of the cases,
said Liu Minhong, a division chief of the Shanghai Intellectual
Property Administration, on Tuesday.
If a case is delayed, the center will help to find out the
reason and organize the involved departments to study the case so
that each complaint can be dealt with seriously,
"It will offer more convenience to IPR owners for they can lodge
whatever kind of complaints. And the IPR owners will know what kind
of violations are involved," Liu said.
The channels to accept complaints in different government
agencies are still available and the center will coordinate with
the agencies, the official added.
Meanwhile, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Center
Tuesday joined hands with the Shanghai Dragon Corp.
"We hope to set up more such cooperation centers with
enterprises," said Li Yaoting, director of the Shanghai
Intellectual Property Service Center.
Such centers will provide patent information to help local
companies, particularly small and medium-sized units which do not
have the resources to have their own IPR units, he said.
Li said the new center will provide free, timely and specific
international patent information to Shanghai Dragon, adding that
local firms can also apply to establish such patent information
relationship with the center.
The local industrial and commercial administration dealt with
652 cases of foreign trademark violations in 2005, accounting for
58.8 percent of the total trademark infringement cases in the
city.
(Shanghai Daily April 26, 2006)