16 Government Agencies in Sichuan Jointly Releases the Opinions on IPR Protection

2018/04/02

Recently, 16 government agencies in Sichuan Province, including Sichuan IP Office and courts at the provincial level, etc. jointly released the Opinions on Carrying out Strict IPR Protection for A Good Business Environment to require that the more efforts should be made to further protect the IPR and improve the IPR service. The Opinions clearly state that the access criteria in investment and other fields should be improved. The units or individuals with malicious or repetitive IPR infringement and refusing to execute the viable judicial ruling, administrative resolution or punishment decision against IPR infringement, or causing serious social impact due to their other acts of IPR infringement, are forbidden to undertake any government-invested programs within three years; more efforts should be made to strengthen the building of an IPR credit system, include the IPR activities into the credit information management system of enterprises and set up the joint punishment and incentive system of corporate credibility; the joint and coordinated system of IPR-related administrative law enforcement should be established, the cross-departmental and cross-region system of IPR case coordination, commissioned evidence collection, joint law enforcement, case transfer and result mutual recognition should be set up in a fast manner.

Source: Sichuan Daily