IPR WG meeting with Guangdong Intellectual Property Office

2014-07-03 | South China

On July 3rd Guangdong Intellectual Property Office (GIPO) delivered a presentation and answered questions concerning administrative enforcement of patent protection in Guangdong province to IPR WG Members. According to GD IPO in 2013, there were 2292 diversified patent cases accepted by different levels of IPOs in Guangdong, 1838 of them have already had settlements. Within these 2292 cases, 1857 of them were patent dispute ones (included the mediation of exhibition patent dispute cases), and 1403 have already had settlements; 435 cases were patent counterfeit cases, all of them had made the conclusions. The amount of patent dispute cases accepted by different levels of IPOs in Guangdong located in the first place of national ranking, and the total amount of patent cases acceptance stayed in the third place of national ranking.The seminar concluded with EU Business in China 2013/2014 Position Paper hand over by Alice Li, Chair of IPR Working Group to Xifan Chen, Deputy Director, Law Enforcement and Supervision Department of Guangdong Intellectual Property Office.