China's State Council promulgated a national
intellectual property strategy [1]. In the policy document there is
a lot of talk about doing everything more efficient and more
effective. Great, but how to achieve these laudable goals?
Over the last two decades, and especially around the time China
ascended to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, China
impressively improved its system of IP protection and enforcement.
However, it's aspirations to make the enforcement "hard as
steel and definitely not soft as bean curd" as China's
premier Wen Jiaobao aspired for in 2006 [2], have not yet
materialised. In the so called Compendium of China's National
Intellectual Property Strategy [3], an extensive list of
aspirations and measures, China is vowing to develop itself into a
country with a relatively higher level of intellectual property
right creation, utilisation, protection and administration by
2020.
