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Monday, October 29, 2001, updated at 14:27(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
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Institute Set up to Promote IPR FixesChina faces an uphill battle to bring its intellectual property rights (IPR) laws in line with international practices, said Ren Jianxin, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on Saturday.Ren's warning came as he kicked off the debut of the China Law Society's Intellectual Property Research Institute to focus on this problem. The institute will convene judges, procurators, lawyers, scholars and representatives from across the country to study IPR laws and make recommendations for how to proceed after China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ren urged members of the institute to study the discord between current domestic IPR rules and international practices, especially WTO's agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), a benchmark rule in international technological trade. China acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1984 and the Bern Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1992. Now China is expected to join WTO next month. "China's legislation on IPR protection is good because the country is starting the job very late and therefore has learned a lot from the experience of other countries," said Guo Shoukang, a professor at the Renmin University of China and an adviser with the newly founded institute. China enacted a trademark law in 1982, a patent law in 1984 and a copyright law in 1990. Yet much more needs to be done, Guo said. At present, most IPR infringement cases in China are dealt with by the business administration departments of the government, who mete out light penalties. China Daily
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