Beijing will establish two intellectual property protection centers this year, according to the information office of the Beijing municipal government.

 

北京市政府新闻办公室表示，今年北京将建立两处知识产权保护中心。

 

The two centers will mainly serve sectors¹ of new information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials and bio-medicine, said Pan Xinsheng, deputy director of Beijing intellectual property office.

 

The centers are expected to shorten the patent review cycle from one year to six months.

 

In 2017, Beijing received 186,000 patent applications and 107,000 patent authorizations, up 4.75 percent and 4.5 percent respectively.

 

In the past five years, 192,000 cases of patent infringement² and counterfeiting³ were investigated and punished in China, as well as 173,000 cases of trademark⁴ infringement and counterfeiting.

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