A training course on IP law and practice at overseas exhibitions was conducted jointly by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and its Fujian branch in Fuzhou on July 12.

The training course wasdesigned to increase the IP awareness and dispute settling capabilities of local enterprises at overseas exhibitions.

Domestic prestigious scholars as well as German law experts were invited to deliver lectures on IP enforcement measures and dispute settlement mechanisms at exhibitions conducted in European Union countries to local enterprises ready to develop their business there.

Nowadays, enterprises are ranked on the basis of patents and brands rather than business scales and trade revenues. Intellectual property currently plays as a key indicator in identifying the development level of technology, economy and culture in an enterprise and even in a country/region.

In 2008, the State Council listed intellectual property protection as one of the three key national strategies. In response to this, Fujian has released a series of documents to promote intellectual property protection since 2010 and has made significant progress in this regard.

In this context, the training is a timely move to help protecting local enterprises from litigation challenges at exhibitions conducted in foreign countries, and is also a practical attempt to explore the protection model of intellectual property rights at overseas exhibitions.

(Source: IPR in China)