SIPO to Beef up IP Rapid and Coordination Protection Work for Industries

2016/12/08

SIPO decided to carry out industrial IP rapid and coordination protection work integrated rapid examination, verification, right defense into one system, and introduce the mechanism that adapts to examination and verification, administrative enforcement, right defense and assistance, arbitration and mediation. By relying on a group of key industrial IP protection centers, SIPO would choose some advantage industrial clusters to conduct this work, according to circular issued by SIPO recently. After the protection center was built, the patent infringement and design infringement case happened in these areas would be concluded within ten days, and those infringement case relating to invention and utility model would be concluded within a month.

Source: SIPO