2010 China IPR Protection Plan issued

2010/04/13

To promote the implementation of National IPR Strategy in 2010, the 28 member units of the Ministerial Joint Meeting on National Intellectual Property Strategy instituted 2010 National IPR Strategy Implementation Plan (hereinafter referred to as 2010 Implementation Plan), which was printed and carried out as of March 26. On the basis of the summary of IPR strategy implementation in 2009, 2010 Implementation Plan defined the emphasis in implementing National IPR Strategy.
2010 Implementation Plan put forwards specific measures from nine aspects, i.e. elevating IPR creation capability, spurring IPR transformation and utilization, quickening IPR legal system construction, raising IPR law enforcement level, enhancing IPR administrative management, exploiting IPR agency service, strengthening IPR talent construction, boosting IPR cultural building and enlarging IPR foreign exchange and cooperation.
(一) Spur IPR creation and application and raise independent IPR level
1. promote the improvement of proprietary IPR creation in key technological fields and the industrialization of important innovative fruits;
2. centralize on national S&T special projects, industrial restructure and the cultivation of strategic emerging industries to build IPR working mechanism and aggrandize IPR management;
3. instruct and support market main body to invest more in IPRs and spur enterprises, universities and scientific entities to acquire IPRs at home and abroad;
4. consummate IPR investment and financing system, explore IPR investment and financing channels, build IPR trade platform and innovate on exchange products and services;
5. intensify IPR work of each industry, develop IPR analysis and early-warning work and elevate core competitiveness of major fields;
6. exert the promotion role of IPR in the coordination and development of regional economy and explore and utilize IPRs with regional characteristics.
(二) strengthen IPR protection in accordance with laws and better IPR legal environment
1. quicken the institution work of IPR laws, regulations and rules and expedite the issuance of IPR judicatory explanations and standard documents;
2. perfect IPR trial system and work mechanism, develop the trial work that IPR tribunals hear IPR civil, administrative and criminal cases and adjust the jurisdiction of IPR civil cases;
 3. reinforce the punishment for IPR infringement, reduce the cost of right maintenance, raise the infringement toll and smother infringing behaviors;
4. lift IPR law enforcement level and construct joint mechanism between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice;
5. boost the construction of law enforcement standardization, reinforce IPR everyday law enforcement and special rectification and well do the IPR protection work for Expo 2010 Shanghai China.
(三) tamp the work basis for the implementation of IPR strategy and create environment favorable for IPR strategy implementation.
 1. perfect the work system on implementing IPR strategy, i.e. ministerial joint meeting plans the work as a whole and local places and departments shoulder their responsibilities according to divisions;
 2. potentiate the construction of the platform for IPR strategy implementation and consummate the exchange mechanism for strategic information, performance assessment mechanism and work supervision mechanism;
 3. issue related policies for the implementation of IPR strategy and ensure the fulfillment of all the measures;
 4. promote the compilation work of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan;
 5. expedite the cultivation of IPR talents and boost the construction of IPR talent cultivation basis;
6. enhance IPR cultural construction, publicize typical experience of China in implementing national IPR strategy and IPR protection achievements and strengthen the awareness of the society in IPR creation, utilization and protection;
 7. explore IPR exchange and cooperation with the world, participate in the institution of international rules, enhance overseas IPR right maintenance and service, properly dispose IPR disputes and instruct enterprises to take part in international IPR competitiveness and cooperation.
                                                                                                Source: IPR in China