11/21/2014

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Government Policies[1]

Li Keqiang presides over State Council executive meeting on November 5NEWS
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Li Keqiang presides over State Council executive meeting on November 5[Central People's Government ]...Premier Li Keqiang presided over the State Council executive meeting on November 5, which
decided to reduce ex ante examination and approval, adopt online examination and approval forinvestment projects, release investment potential and development vigor. The meeting also deployed
work on strengthening IPR protection and utilization, assisting innovation and business start-up, andupgrading "made in China".
The meeting decided that (1) five principles should be adopted to facilitate enterprise investment to thegreatest extent possible: matters that should be deemed autonomy of enterprises in operation will nolonger serve as the ex ante requirements; ex ante examination and approval will not be conducted for
those that are not explicitly prescribed by laws and regulations; ex ante requirements that are explicitlyprescribed by laws and regulations should be cancelled through law amendments, except for those that
truly need be retained; no ex ante examination and approval should be conducted for matters that can besettled by the organs through soliciting opinions of other departments; intermediary services should notbe prescribed or intermediary institutions be designated compulsorily unless needed under special
circumstances which have legal basis; a catalog should be prepared for the ex ante examination items
and intermediary services that truly need be retained and should be made public; (2) enterprises should
decide on their own whether or not they need intermediary services. Where administrative organs
entrust intermediary services, the intermediary institutions should be selected through competition, andthe expenses should be paid by the administrative organs; (3) ex ante examination and approval and1/2project verification and approval can be handled together so as to accelerate the handling speed; (4)interim and ex post regulation should strengthened. Online examination and approval regulatory
platform for investment projects featuring information sharing and covering the whole nation should beestablished so as to realize online handling, examination and approval and regulation and raise
examination and approval efficiency.
The meeting believed that efforts should be made to: (1) strengthen IPR protection, and encourage
innovation and creation; we should strengthen IPR law enforcement in key fields, and vigorously
combat various forms of infringements, and include malicious infringement into the social credit
system. We should also promote the use of genuine copies of software, and give equal treatment andprotection to the IPR of foreign enterprises and individuals, and reinforce China's IPR rights protection
assistance in overseas areas; (2) promote the creation and utilization of patent, copyright, trademark,new plant varieties, etc., to provide basic IPR information free of charge or at low cost to the public,
especially innovators; (3) establish national scientific major project and scientific plan IPR target
assessment system to promote the transfer and transformation of innovative results; and (4) give morefinancial and fiscal support. We should use fiscal funds to guide and promote transformation ofscientific achievements into property right and industrialization of IPR. Financial institutions should besupported to innovate IPR financing services. Local governments should be encouraged to establish
micro and small enterprise credit risk compensation funds to give prioritized support for IPR pledgedloans.
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Shanghai Pudong New Area established the intellectual property office[Central People's Government]...On November 16, China's first independent intellectual property office was established in Shanghai
Pudong New Area which combined the functions of patent, trademark, and copyright administrationand comprehensive law enforcement and will put into operation on January 1, 2015. The new office will,on the one hand, combine and integrate the patent and trademark functions of the New Area, and on theother hand, receive some patent and copyright administration and law enforcement affairs delegated byrelevant departments of Shanghai government. In addition, the reform will realize the combination ofcomplaint and disposal, which changed the previous situation that the complaints on patent, trademark
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