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Patent System in China in Line with WTOWith the speeding up of economic globalization, intellectual property rights as one of the three main components of WTO will be a rivalry area between various countries.Jiang Ying, director of State Intellectual Property Rights Bureau (SIPRB) lately in an interview said that an urgent task facing China's intellectual property rights cause at present and during a long period of time in future is how to study, master and utilize patent rules by the WTO. Concerned departments in China are demanded to master some key high-tech intellectual property rights and take our own market advantages for enhanced comprehensive national competitive force and safeguard maximum national interests. Jiang Ying pointed out that China has achieved great success in legislation, checking-up and system construction on patents in the past 10-plus years in contrast to several decades and even more than a hundred years used by some developed countries to that end. In the interview, Jiang gave specific analysis on legislation, application and international cooperation on patents in today's China. She made it clear that a patent law in light of China's current situation and criteria for international patent protection has been established after 15 years' efforts and especially in fields of terms and scope of patent protection, China has in advance met requirements demanded by the WTO. What's more, departments concerned are making adjustments to the law in a bid to give patent system a full role to play in technological innovations and economic development, she said. Jiang stressed that China's patent system has been open to the world since its gestation and birth. By now, China has entered nearly all international conventions and treaties in connection with patent rights such as "Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property" and "Treaty on Patent Cooperation" and sound cooperative relations have been established between SIPRB and its counterparts throughout the world. Multi-lateral international cooperation and exchanges in the field of patents has propelled the further development of China's patent cause and helped China erect a fine image in international community, she concluded.
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