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Guangdong-HK Expert Group On IP Protection Meets

by Mary Swire, for LawAndTax-News.com, Hong Kong

25 July 2006

At the fifth meeting of the Guangdong/Hong Kong Expert Group on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights on Saturday, both parties agreed to step up cooperation to raise the level of public awareness of intellectual property.

At the meeting, the two sides reviewed the latest developments of intellectual property (IP) in the two places and concluded that many intellectual property cooperation items had been successfully completed.

These include an IP education sharing programme held in Nanhai for teachers from primary and secondary schools of both regions; a training and exchange programme for IP officials of both sides and an IP seminar organised in Zhanjiang.

Projects for the second half of the year were also discussed, including enhancing the IP education sharing programme for teachers from the primary and secondary schools in both regions and organising a seminar on “Intellectual Property and the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises” in the Guangdong Province.

Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, the Director of Intellectual Property, Stephen Selby announced that:

“Since the Expert Group was set up in 2003, we have successfully promoted intellectual property rights protection in both regions. For example, we note that the proportion of trademark applications in Hong Kong filed by Mainland enterprises has increased from 4% in 2003 to 10% in 2005, of which 40% of the Mainland applicants were from the Guangdong province."

"We will step up efforts in this area by, for example, conducting talks in Guangdong Province on the intellectual property system in Hong Kong.”

The Expert Group, set up after the Sixth Plenary of the Guangdong/Hong Kong Cooperation Joint Conference held in August 2003, aims at enhancing exchanges and cooperation on various aspects of intellectual property, including promotion and education, training, enforcement and information dissemination.

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