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Intellectual Property - IP Laws - China
China:
Protecting
IP rights at exhibitions:
In order
to promote the healthy development of the exhibition industry, the
Measures on Protection of IPR at Exhibitions were promulgated by
the concerned Departments of Chinese Government which came into
effect on March 1, 2006. The Measures provide that a
complaint unit may be set up by the organizers of the exhibitions
if they are held for three days or more for handling cases of suspected
IP infringement taking place during exhibitions. The complaint
unit would consist of officials from the local IP authorities.
Any complaint
must be supported with proof of the IP rights, evidence of infringement,
basic information about the infringer and a power of attorney.
Complaints received by the respective complaint units must be passed
to the local IP authorities within 24 hours in order to issue decisions
to the parties promptly. In the event that there is no complaint
unit, the exhibition organizer is required to display prominently
the contact details of the local IP authorities.
Once the
local IP authorities confirm that infringement took place, they
may either order the removal of the infringing items along with
the destruction of promotional materials or the change of exhibition
boards, without prejudice to other laws such as payment of fines,
etc. Those exhibition organizers that fail to
protect IP adequately will either receive a warning or refusal to
hold the exhibitions subsequently from the exhibition authorities.
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