China has issued a circular on intellectual property rights
(IPR) protection for exhibits recently which will go into effect on
March. 3, 2006.
The circular was jointly issued by the Chinese Ministry of
Commerce, the State Administration for Industry of Commerce of
China, the National Copyright Administration of China, and the
State Intellectual Property Office.
According to the circular, the exhibition organizers should
strengthen IPR protection of exhibits and the audit of exhibit
IPRs.
An office should be established by exhibition organizers to
handle complaints about the IPR if an exhibition is to be held for
over three days, the circular said.
The circular also requires corresponding departments to accept
and hear cases involving IPR infringement, including those for
patents, trademarks, copyrights.
(Xinhua News Agency January 13, 2006)
