Compendium Of China National Intellectual Property Strategy

Key Points:

• Compendium establishes wide framework for enhancing IP protection, enforcement and public awareness
  
  

• Establishment of dedicated IP courts being considered
  
  

On June 5, 2008 the State Council promulgated the Compendium of China National Intellectual Property Strategy ("Compendium"), vowing to build China into a country with a comparatively higher level of intellectual property rights ("IPR") creation, utilization, protection and administration by 2020. Within the next five years, China will take measures to dramatically raise its level of IP, ensure the effectiveness of IPR utilization, prominently improve IPR protection, and greatly enhance public awareness of IP and its important role in China's trade and commerce.