In the first half of this year, Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration started a series of creative works in patent administrative law enforcement. It jointly issued the 2007 Work Plan for Patent Administrative Law Enforcement in Zhengzhou with Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and conducted activities such as legal consultations on IP protection, legal assistance and forewarning system construction to supply better IP protection services to local enterprises.
So far, Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration totally handled 10 patent violation disputes, four of which have been resolved, launched two special actions together with public security departments of provincial, municipal and district level, supplied law enforcement assistances twice in Hangzhou and Wenzhou, sealed up 5,010 illegal products and 451 production molds according to the law, and published more than 30 articles and news reports on IP protection and law enforcement on the State Intellectual Property Office website, China Invention and Patent magazine and other media.
On the World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, Zhengzhou Municipal Intellectual Property Administration reviewed the legal status of 3,650 patented products from various large shopping malls and found 43 disguised and fake patents and five patents with vague legal status. On April 29, Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration, Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and Zhengzhou Bureau of Commerce jointly issued a note to urge all the commercial enterprises in the city to illustrate the legal status of their suspected disguised and fake patent products during a limited period of time. Currently, more than 200 disguised and fake patent products in 20 species were moved out of 10 shopping malls. At the same time, the administration improved the patented products management in various shopping malls and trained related people and strengthened people's consciousness of IP protection, achieving remarkable social benefits.
In order to further standardize patent law enforcement, improve law enforcement levels and set up the image of law enforcement departments, Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration issued a series of documents such as On the Establishment of the First People Responsibility in Administrative Law Enforcement of Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration and On the Establishment of the Responsibility System in Patent Administrative Law Enforcement of Zhengzhou Municipal IP Administration this year. Meanwhile, it compiled and standardized related archives.