The National Defense IPR Strategy Implementation Mobilization Conference recently was held in Beijing to improve the quality and quantity of national defense intellectual property protections.

The State Council in June 2008 issued the National IPR Strategy Outline and then designated the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Armament Department to organize the implementation work for national defense IP rights.

The General Armament Department established a National Defense IPR Strategy Implementing Leadership Group and instituted a National Defense IPR Strategy Implementation Plan in partnership with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology and State Intellectual Property Office.

The plan established goals to implement the national defense IPR strategy in 2015 and 2020. A work plan to guide implementation of those goals was expected to be complete in 2011 or 2012.

(Source: China Daily)