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Chapter 10 Local Trademark Progress

Updated: 2010-04-22 10:41

In the year of 2009, AICs at all levels in China were deepening their study of scientific outlook on development and safeguarding the market fairness and order for China’s stable and fast economic development. They started with the implementation of trademark strategy and aimed at the advancement of legal system construction and innovation, made new progresses in enforcement efficiency, administrative capacity, innovative service, working mechanism and capacity building. All of their efforts made significant contribution to China’s tackling with global financial crisis, construction of innovation-based country and economic development.

1. Vigorously implementing the Trademark Strategy and serving social and economic development

In the year of 2009, AICs at all levels in China sincerely implemented the Outline, the Trademark Strategy and escalated the Trademark Strategy from AIC behavior to governmental behavior, promoted local trademark legal system improvement, encouraged enterprises to cultivate and register trademarks so as to improve the enterprises’ core competence and make contribution to the transform of economic development model at local level and build an innovation-based nation.

Currently, the trademark strategy leading groups had been set up in over 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with Tianjin, Ningxia and Chongqing having senior government leader as the group’s head. Among the 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities 12 had already issued their documents regarding the implementation of the Trademark Strategy. Among them, the governments of Tianjin and Ningxia had already issued the documents, while other 19 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions were preparing to issue their documents, while Jilin, Jiangsu, Xinjiang and Shanxi would hand out the documents by local governments.

Tianjin Government promulgated three documents, Provision on Implementing the Trademark Strategy to Promote Economic Development, Tianjin Trademark Development Plan in next Three Years and The System of Inter-Bureau Conference for Advancing the Implementation of Trademark Strategy in Tianjin, and held a special conference to award model enterprises and promote the implementation of the Outline and Trademark Strategy.

December 15th, Tianjin Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce held “Awarding Presenting Meeting for Carrying out the Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy and Implementing the Trademark Strategy”. Gansu AIC established a leading group for trademark strategy implementation and made a specific manpower arrangement realizing for the Outline, defining the responsibility of each departments, and even set up a trademark strategy research team in accordance with the IP strategy formulated by Gansu provincial government to exercise special topic research for Gansu.