Advocacy Actions
Meeting with General Operation Department of General Administration of Customs in China (GACC)
Director General of the General Operation Department, Jin Hai of General Administration of Customs in China (GACC) introduced the newly merged organization and the GACC's reform achievements in 2018. GACC representatives from the General Operation Department, Customs Control Department, Enterprise Management Department, Supervision and Internal Auditing Department, and Import and Export Food Safety Bureau also attended the meeting and answered Chamber representatives' questions.
Read moreChamber IPR Working Group Chair Presents at 15th Shanghai International IP Forum and Global IP Protection and Innovation Development Conference
Invited by the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration, Elliot Papageorgiou, chair of the European Chamber Intellectual Property Rights Working Group, spoke at the 15th Shanghai International IP Forum and Global IP Protection and Innovation Development Conference.
Read moreMeeting with Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission on IP
The National Chair of the Intellectual Property Rights Working Group met with representatives of the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG TRADE) to discuss about the negotiation for the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment from the IP perspective.
Read moreComments to CTMO on the Revision of the Trademark Law
The European Chamber's submitted collated comments on the revision of the Trademark Law to the Trademark Office.
Read moreComments to NPC on the E-commerce Law (Draft for Third Review)
The European Chamber's submitted collated comments on the E-commerce Law (Draft for Third Review) to the National People's Congress.
Read moreMeeting with Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Chinese Regulatory and Industrial Policies
The European Chamber had a meeting with a Japanese delegation led by Haruyuki Yada, Director for Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to exchange on Chinese regulatory and industrial policies.
Read moreMeeting with SAIC on Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the IPR Abuse
A meeting with SAIC was held to discuss on the latest version of the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the IPR Abuse SAIC is drafting.
Read more30 years of EPO - SIPO Cooperation Celebrated in Beijing: The European Chamber Contributes.
30 years of EPO - SIPO Cooperation Celebrated in Beijing: The European Chamber Contributes.
On 26th November, the European Chamber participated in the second international symposium marking the 30th Anniversary of EPO (European Patent Office) - SIPO (State Intellectual Property Office) Cooperation, this time in Beijing. The EPO and SIPO looked back at the last 30 years of joint projects and achievements, with EPO President Benoit Battistelli and SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu once again confirming the strong links between the respective organizations and the European and Chinese patent systems.
CTMO Lobby letter on Acceptance of Non-English Characters
"The trade mark application form requires an applicant to complete its name and address in Chinese and English characters. Over the years, the requirement to use English characters has not been strictly enforced such that German, French, Danish etc. characters (e.g. “β”, “ö”, “ǽ”, “ø”) have been accepted and appear on the Office's online database and on registration certificates.
Without prior notification, the Office is now strictly enforcing the requirement to only use English characters. Thus, applications containing non-English characters in the applicant's name and address are being rejected. To confound matters, the International Registration Department is simply deleting the umlauts, which unfortunately can make trade mark unenforceable as many European authorities will refuse to notarise a power of attorney where there are differences in the required signatory is a "Mr. Moller" rather than the "Mr. Möller" or "Mr. Moeller" standing before them, who may be the actual owner of the mark in question."