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| NPC Adopts the Decision on Revision of the Chinese Patent Law |
| 2008-12-30 15:44:33 |
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On December 27, 2008, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh National People’s Congress adopted the Decision on the Revision of the Chinese Patent Law. In this decision, further clarification was made with regard to the connotation of patent, optimization of patent protection system, upgrading of the standards for patent allowance and more severe punishment upon patent infringement. At the press conference after the Plenary Session, Mr. Chen Guangjun, Director of the Section of Science and Technology under the Committee of Education, Science and Health of the National People’s Congress, introduced the features of the third revision of the Chinese Patent Law.
Mr. Chen pointed out that the Chinese Patent Law and the Patent System in China were the outcome of the reform and opening-up policy. The Chinese Patent Law first adopted at the Sixth National People’s Congress in 1984, has been revised twice in 1992 and 2000 respectively. The purpose of the first revision of the Chinese Patent Law was to further promote the reform and opening-up strategy and fulfill Chinese government’s commitments in the Sino-US Memorandum of Understanding on the Protection of Intellectual Property. The second revision was aimed at establishing and optimizing the socialist market economy system to meet the requirement for joining WTO. The third revision was conducted under the circumstances of “reinforcing the capacity of independent innovation and building an innovation-oriented country” for the aim of implementing the outlook of scientific development and changing the mode of economic development by means of strengthening intellectual property protection. The third revision of the Chinese Patent Law is characterized by the efforts to encouraging the improvement of innovation capacity and reinforcing the protection of patent right.
It is reported that the revised Chinese Patent Law will be enacted as of October 1, 2009. |
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