| State Office of Intellectual Property Protection of the P.R.C |
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| Wednesday,June 29,2005 Posted: 05:05 BJT(2105 GMT) MOFCOM |
In order to further strengthen the leadership of IPR protection undertaking, Chinese government has decided to set up the National Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights Protection. The Working Group is led by Vice Premier Wu Yi and constituted by thirteen members who are in charge of twelve IPR-related agencies including the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Customs General Administration, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the National Copyright Administration, the State Administration of Food and Drug, the State Intellectual Property Office, the Legislative Affairs Office of State Council, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The main task of the National Working Group is to be responsible for promoting the construction of laws and regulations on IPR protection, setting up trans-departmental coordination mechanism of law enforcement on IPR protection, well dealing with the linkage of administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, joint supervision on the disposal of major IPR infringement cases and instructing localities and departments on IPR protection. The provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government also have already set up their corresponding IPR protection organizations.
The State Office of Intellectual Property Protection (shortened as SOIPP), set up within the Ministry of Commerce, is the daily executive agency under the National Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights Protection. The director of SOIPP is Zhang Zhigang, who is the vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce.
For further information about the SOIPP, please visit its website http://ipr2.mofcom.gov.cn |
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