Recently, Wuhan Intellectual Property Protection Center was successfully approved as the local sub-center of the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center, marking the upgrade of Wuhan’s overseas intellectual property protection.
Recently, the State Intellectual Property Office announced the list of the second batch of local sub-centers of the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center, and Wuhan is among them.
It is reported that in 2020, Wuhan has applied for 1,389 overseas patents through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) route, continuing to maintain the forefront of similar cities in the country. A large number of Wuhan enterprises represented by Huaxing Optoelectronics, Yangtze River Storage, Gezhouba, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, China Railway Bridge Bureau, Huaxin Cement, Renfu Medicine, Douyu TV, etc. have gone out and laid out overseas markets one after another. The overseas layout of
is inseparable from the protection of intellectual property rights. Dealing with intellectual property disputes has become a topic that cannot be avoided in the overseas development of Wuhan enterprises. The relevant person in charge of the China (Wuhan) Intellectual Property Protection Center said that the approval to establish a local sub-center of the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center will help improve Wuhan enterprises’ awareness of intellectual property risk prevention and control and their ability to respond to disputes, and strengthen enterprises’ overseas intellectual property rights. Layout, reduce overseas intellectual property risks, help Wuhan enterprises to go global, and provide solid basic support and guarantee for Wuhan's high-quality economic development and business environment optimization.
In the future, under the guidance of the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center and in light of the actual situation in Wuhan, the Wuhan Branch will establish a multi-disciplinary and multi-technical field, with interdisciplinary and inter-professional overall advantages to respond to intellectual property disputes. Expert database and public interest lawyer team.Focus on the difficulties and pain points in overseas intellectual property disputes, build a platform for overseas intellectual property disputes information collection and release, explore the establishment of a guidance and assistance mechanism for Wuhan enterprises to respond to overseas intellectual property disputes, and provide more efficient and convenient overseas for "going out" enterprises Intellectual property risk prevention and dispute response services.
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