Officials upbeat, turn focus to work ahead

Shen Changyu

Head of the National Intellectual Property Administration

China's top intellectual property regulator vowed to enhance communications with private and foreign enterprises to learn more about their opinions and demands regarding intellectual property-related affairs, and said greater efforts would be made to help them solve issues they could be facing.

The pledge was made on Monday by Shen Changyu, head of the National Intellectual Property Administration.

Highlighting equal protection to enterprises, regardless of whether they are State-owned, private or foreign, Shen said the administration will listen to their IP-related demands regularly and solve their problems in a timely manner.

"We'll optimize legal documents involving IP rights, such as accelerating steps to revise the Trademark Law and fully implementing the newly amended Patent Law," he said. "At the same time, we're exploring ways to formulate intellectual property protection rules in the field of data."

In addition, he revealed that the administration will improve the efficiency of the process of reviewing patents and trademarks, with better services for enterprises to obtain authorization in this regard.

"What we want is to provide a more efficient, convenient and low-cost channel for enterprises to protect their IP rights, so as to facilitate their healthy development and offer them a better innovation and business environment," he added.