Hongkong: HK,Guangdong mark 10 years as partners

2012/08/02

Hong Kong and Guangdong IP authoritiescelebrated the 10th anniversary of cooperationbetween the two sides.

Since 2003, the two sides have co-helda seminar on IP and development of smalland medium-sized enterprises, an event thathas taken place in many cities of Guangdong,including Guangzhou, Shenzhen andDongguan and benefi ted more than 2,000companies.

Uniform standards for IP managementco-released by the Guangdong provincial IPoffi ce and HK Productivity Council beganto take eff ect in October 2010.

And during a campaign to fi ght counterfeitsand piracy nationwide that lastedfrom November 2010 to June 2011, the twosides further enhanced their already closeties and initiated an operation named “SeaDragon”. Guangdong customs investigated43 infringements involving HK and Macao,and HK customs handled 13 cases ofinfringement. Th e move was listed amongthe 10 major national IP protection eventsof last year.

(Source:CHINA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)