the 29th Issue: Chinese PCT applications grows by 20% in 2009-China Intellectual Property Magazine

CHINA wants its domestic brand vehicles to account for 50 percent of its passenger vehicle market by 2015 as it drives to reduce its alliance on foreign auto makers after years of doing assembly work. A revised blueprint for China's auto industry also targets China's self-branded cars to take 40 percent of the nation's total car market by the same time, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in a proposal.More

·Chinese PCT applications grows by 20% in 2009
After being firstly listed in the top ten countries in respect of PCT applications in 2005, China surpassed Britain to be the sixth in 2008 with a growth rate more than 10%. The increased investment in S&D results in big progress in patent applications by China, said reports made by Thomson Scientific.More

·China's Patent Examination Capability Rapidly Increased
Latest statistics show that this year from January to October, there were totally 712,300 cases of patent applications, a 12% increase compared with the same period last year. Recently, SIPO Deputy Director He Hua said in the interview:More

·Patent applications create big achievements for enterprises

According to the united statistics of State Intellectual Property Office and State Statistical Bureau, in 2008, China had 17,884 enterprises applied patents, accounting for 4.2% of the total 426,000 industrial enterprises above designed size, and achieved revenue of 11.2478 trillion yuan from main operation, accounting for 22.3% of the total revenue of industrial enterprises above designed size.More

·Google submits books' list
·More domestic brand cars for gov't officials
·Media giants to join China's animation copyright fair
·Water Project Produces Dozens Patent Applications
·Improvement in the city's legal environment for World Expo
·MIIT releases result of 9th Information Industry Technology and Invention Appraisal
·China Copyright Yearbook published
·Saab assets to boost renewed Beijing Auto brand
·KTV bars put under supervision

China IP Articles

·Two Anti-Piracy Alliances, Same Enemy Issue 32, China IP,[Copyright]
After this September, every video website and websites with video channels except CCTV.com, Ifeng, Sohu, JOY.cn and Union Voole, will have to ask themselves: Are we piracy sites? Are we going to spend money on copyright to become “genuine video sites?”If they do not think over these questions, they will receive attorney letters or even court notices requested by one or both of the two alliances, i.e. “CCTV-IFeng Network Video Copyright Protection Alliance” launched by CCTV.com and Ifeng on August 19 and the “China Network Video Anti-Piracy Alliance,” jointly initiated by Sohu, JOY.cn, Union Voole and Huaxia Shilian on September 18.More

·Patent Protection – An Eternal Topic of R&D-Oriented Drug Companies Issue 32, By Doris Li, Photo by Zhou Yi, China IP,[Comprehensive Reports]
On August 20, 2004, Sanofi-Aventis Group was founded. Calculated by time, this group should be regarded as a “new” business. However, no one dared to overlook this merger considering the background of the two giant companies. After the “phoenix nirvana”, the two international businesses now target the huge international market of drug industry. In 1982, Sanofi, as the first foreign investment into China’s drug industry, opened its office in Beijing. The predecessor of Aventis is also well-known.More