VI. Training and Education

 

(I) To formulate training plans and compile teaching materials

 

1. To organize the compiling of teaching materials for IPR training.

2. To revise the professional training programs for IPR ruling at a proper timing, and strengthen the training on basics of civil and commercial law, professional ruling skills and basic scientific and technological knowledge.

3. To compile the loose-leaf Handbook on Identifying Infringing Goods, which could be updated frequently, and to distribute the handbooks to customs checkpoints.

4. To formulate, print and distribute the Guidelines on National IPR Education and Training.

 

(II) IPR training for leading officials

 

1. To hold a "Training Program on IPR Criminal Protection" for law enforcement and judicial officials at the Director-General level.

2. To implement the China-Germany IPR Administrative Enforcement Training Program and organize three training sessions.

3. To include special seminars on copyright protection into training programs for relevant leading officials.

4. To hold a Training Program on IPR Strategy for leaders at the municipal level.

 

(III) IPR training for grass-root judicial and law enforcement personnel

 

1. To give full play to the role of the National Judges College as a major channel for intensive training at a regular basis, and try to extend to every IPR judge one training opportunity at the National Judges College every two years.

2. To organize two training sessions on the comprehension and application of new judicial interpretation at training institutions including the National Judges College.

3. To jointly hold a training program with China Intellectual Property Training Center on ruling of IPR cases for grass-root courts.

4. To focus on strengthening training of IPR judges based in the western regions. The Supreme People's Court will grant preferential policies to courts located in the western regions in terms of case study, dedicated training and subject research.

5. To increase contents on IPR in this year's training program for prosecutors, and organize them to participate in the training activities held by the National IPR Protection Working Group Office.

6. To continue the training and education of public security officers on IPR enforcement through various forms including professional training and long-distance teaching on an organized and targeted basis.

7. To hold training classes on protecting copyright and fighting against infringement and piracy.

8. To organize IPR enforcement training classes for law enforcement staff at the director-general level and law enforcement police, strengthen the sense of responsibility of law enforcement team and solve the theoretical and practical problems encountered by the public security authorities in combating IPR violations.

9. To hold 3 or 4 training sessions for grass-root administrative enforcement team in the cultural sector based in different locations, and discuss the practice and experience in fighting against pirated audio-video products and illegal network-based culture-related business operation.

10. To hold a national working conference on network culture, reinforce the management of network culture market and strengthen the education and training of law enforcement personnel.

11. To continue to strengthen training of customs enforcement teams at different ports, in particular, to improve the competence of customs inspectors on the ground identifying infringing products. While ensuring the training of coastal ports, training of inland ports should be improved.

12. To strengthen practical guidance for provincial Administrations for Industry and Commerce, and organize national or regional training sessions for grass-root trademark enforcement personnel.

13. To hold one or two training sessions to disseminate the knowledge on international trademark registration.

14. To organize targeted training focused on the registration and protection of agriculture trademarks and geographical indications.

15. To hold a training class on international trademark registration for agriculture exporters, and steer and promote agriculture exporters to pay attention to international trademark registration.

16. To hold a training class on the protection of Olympic logos.

17. To conduct training on IPR protection competence for frontline enforcement team responsible for inspection and quarantine.

18. To organize training courses for copyright administrative and enforcement teams at the municipal level, and to strengthen training of new and grass-root personnel responsible for copyright administration.

19. To organize a senior IPR workshop.

20. To continue to hold the national training class for patent administrative enforcement teams.

 

(IV) IPR-Related Training for Businesses and Public Institutions

 

1. To open training classes on law for companies' management people in cooperation with relevant authorities in a bid to enhance IPR protection training on laws and regulations in companies.

2. To launch one to three training sessions on IPR management and practice for IT companies and institutions.

3. To provide trainings on protecting IPR abroad for trading companies, economic and commercial sections of Chinese embassies and local economic and trade authorities.

4. To hold training courses on copyright specially for the staff of companies, institutions and copyright and related right holders' organizations.

5. To organize IPR seminars for business leaders and IPR administrators.

 

(V) Basics Education

 

1. To provide trainings for IPR-specialized lawyers in a bid to intensify education of high quality human resources on IPR legal services.

2. To step up cultivation of IPR specialists attending on-the-job master programs in law and expand the scale of such cultivation.
3. To popularize education of IPR-related knowledge amongst university, middle school and primary school students.

 

(China.org.cn)