China plans to restructure the State Intellectual Property
Office to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights,
according to the State institutional reform plan of the State
Council.
The office will incorporate part of functions of the State
Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), and the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine,
to solve problems including separated administration and
overlapping enforcement. The new agency will be responsible for
facilitating the construction of an IPR protection system, and the
registration and administrative adjudication of trademarks, patents
and geographical indications.
At the same time, Shen Changyu, director of the State
Intellectual Property Office, made the remarks at the annual
session of the national legislature that the Office will treat
domestic enterprises and international ones, big companies and
small firms, State-owned companies and private sectors, equally,
