Protection of Well-known Trade Marks: finding a common rationale between the EU and China
IP Key and the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) will be co-hosting a roundtableon emerging issues relevant to the protection of copyrights in the digital environment and the development of a prosperous and balanced digital market for cultural and creative industries. The roundtable, which is to take place on 2 December 2015 in Shanghai, will serve as a platform for Chinese and European government agencies, courts, industry associations, collective management organisations and academia to discuss the legislative updates, licensing models as well as copyright enforcements in
A one-day seminar entitled “Seminar on IPR in Standardisation” will be held on December 10th 2015 at the Novotel Xinqiao in Beijing, China. It is an activity under the EU-China Cooperation on IPR, and will be co-organised by the Treaty and Law Department of Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and IP Key. The seminar will bring together Chinese and EU government officials, standard-setting organisation (SSO) representatives, academics, industry representatives, and IP lawyers to provide insights into policymaking and management in the area of IPR in standardisation.
In the context of the EU-China Action Plan (2014-2017) on IPR Customs Enforcement of IPR, IP Key is going to co-organise a training in Europe for 10 customs officers from different ports and airports in China from November 16 to 26, 2015.
In 2014 IP Key and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce facilitated exchanges between European and Chinese experts on trade mark best practices. Building on the outcome of such exchanges, a number of areas requiring further investigation were identified.
Expert exchanges therefore continued in 2015, in view of the implementation of recently revised Chinese Trade Mark Law.
On the 16th October, representatives from Chinese universities meet to discuss the 2nd EU-China IP Academic Forum. The first forum was held in the Suzhou Campus of Renmin University in 10th May 2015, and successfuly attracted over 200 participants. Next year the forum will be held in London and will be led by QMUL in April 2016. The EU-China Research Network Feasibility Study was also launched during this meeting.
As of 14 September 2015, the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have made their industrial design data available to the Designview tool, a searchable database for IP users set up by the EU's IP office OHIM (Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal Market).
On the 24th of August, IP Key met with 15 key Chinese agencies dealing with IP issues to discuss the Yearly Action Action Plan for 2016 (YAP3). In the meeting Benoit Missone gave an update of the activities carried out between IP Key and Chinese agencies and Chinese agencies had the opportunity to comment and give suggestions for future activties.
The YAP process started in July when an email was sent to EU stakeholders to solicit feedback. YAP3 will be carried out over six months as IP Key will wrap up in June 2016 after three successful years of cooperation.
The Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress, Standing Committee of the PRC (in short, LAC) is in the process of further revising the Chinese Criminal Code (lastly revised in 2012), LAC Department of Criminal Law is going to be working, in particular, on the amendment to the chapters regulating IPR crimes.
IP Key and LAC recently partnered in the organization of a study visit for a DG-level delegation of the Legislative Affairs Commission, which unfolded in peer to peer exchanges in Rome (Italy) and Alicante (Spain) between November 11th and 18th, 2015.