The "2007 IPR Protection Publicity Week" activities will be launched soon. On April 16th, a press conference was held by the organizing committee and released that the "2007 IPR Protection Publicity Week" and the preparation for "2007 High-level Forum for IPR Protection" would be held.

It was reported that the "Publicity Week" activities will be held in the Chaoyang Park, Beijing, in the morning of April 20th. There are three special features as compared with that of the three previous sessions: more departments will take part in the activities; new activities will be organized; public service hotline, numbering "12312" will be set up and the Olympic IPR protection will be high-lighted. Olympic IPR protection will be publicized as one of the most important contents, in order to escort the successful hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games. Numerous special activities will be organized by various departments either. "Collection and Evaluation of IPR Songs", for example, will be organized by SIPO; the press conference on "Cracking Down Internet Copyright Infringement and Piracy and Promoting the Use of the Original Edition of Software" will be convened by the National Copyright Administration (NCA), at which, some key cases will be made public; and the "Independent Innovation and IPR Knowledge Competition" will be organized by the National Intellectual Property Rectification Office and the SIPO.

Beginning from 2005, a "High-level Forum for IPR Protection" has been held during the "Publicity Week", at which, officials from the domestic and foreign governments, experts and entrepreneurs will be invited to jointly probe on the issues pertaining to IPR protection. It was briefed that this year's forum will be held in the Beijing Hotel on April 24th. With the theme of "IPR Protection and the Competitive Edge of Entrepreneurs", this forum will make further research on the connection between IPR protection and the competitive edge of entrepreneurs, so as to provide substantial experiences for various kinds of enterprises and to make more suggestions and means for establishing and improving of "IPR Protection System".

It was learned that this "Publicity Week" will be organized around the "World IP Day" which falls on April 24th, with the goal of upgrading public IPR consciousness, and appealing the participation of the entire society for IPR protection. Since 2004, when the publicity week was held for the first time, the activity has gradually become a platform for publicizing the IP laws and regulations, the knowledge on IPR and upgrading public consciousness of IPR protection in China. This year, 18 government departments, including the Working Office for State Intellectual Property Protection, the Central Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, the National Copyright Administration, the State Intellectual Property Office, the Information Office of the State Council, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court, joint the organizing committee.

 

2007-04-25

2007-04-25