China Fish 2012 IPR Report

General overview

China Fish has set up its Intellectual Property Right Office since 2004. The establishment of Intellectual Property Rights Offices, in the first place, manifested that the organizers as well as the Association has attached great importance to IPR protection. Second, the IPR office has exerted great on-site support to the exhibition in terms of intellectual property services and adjustment. Third, the IPR office laid solid foundation for further development of intellectual property consultancy services. During the exhibition, IPR office received a total of 8 intellectual property cases, of which 6 concerning complainants.

IPR Cases of China Fish 2012

Report on the IPR office services

First of all, according to the above figures, it is concluded that the exhibition has achieved a growth of approximately 60% in terms of the IPR cases compared with the previous exhibition, which shows that the participating exhibitors have significantly enhanced their awareness of intellectual property law. The enterprises are not only concerned about how to protect their intellectual property rights, but also pay close attention to defending themselves after they obtained intellectual property rights. It is encouraging that the enterprises are taking the initiative to protect their intellectual property rights.

Second, it is found that the majority of the industry is aware of the intellectual property protection and has paid great attention to the establishment of corporate intellectual property. Nonetheless, most of the patents belong to utility model patents and design patents, the censorship of which does not involve the substantive process. Besides, the authorization of this kind of patents is duplicated and flawed. Therefore, enterprises should strengthen the stability and novelty of their patents. During the exhibition, the stability and novelty of the patents are often questioned, thus resulted in corresponding problems and obstacles.

Third, the number of cases related to foreign companies concerning complaints keeps on rising year after year, which demonstrates that the industry are getting more active in international trade, and the increasing investment by foreign enterprises into the domestic fishing tackle industry. Domestic Patent protection is of strategic importance both for the domestic and foreign enterprises.

Forth, the domestic enterprises has strengthened their awareness of the domestic patent protection, however, they seldom extend the patent to overseas market, especially those export-oriented enterprises. Consequently, the process of overseas patent rights protection will encounter problems and difficulties.