On the morning of November 18, the IP Protection Symposium of National Foreign Investment Commercial Institutions was held in Chongqing, all representatives of ministries who participated in the meeting made speeches aiming at their regional IP protection work. Director of Protection and Coordination Department of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Huang Qing expressed that, SIPO totally accepted 707 pieces of patent infringing cases and 26 other disputes cases in the former quarters this year, investigated 6 cases imitating other people's patents and 400 cases with counterfeit patents. The department sent out 9,763 law enforcers in the first half year, inspected 4,708 commercial locations and 930,000 products, handed over 4 cases to public security departments, accepted 3 cases handed over by other departments, carried out inter-departmental cooperative law enforcement for 247 times and trans-regional law enforcement for 112 times.
                                                                                                Source: IPR in China