IPR Enforcement Campaigns Deliver

According to a SIPO enforcement roundtable in Beijing on August 14, IPR enforcement has made new advancement a year after implementation of the national IP strategy. 

In 2008, SIPO waged two nationwide campaigns, Operation Thunderstorm targeting patent infringement and illicit patent marking and Operation Skynet targeting patent fraud.  Local administrations handed in nice score sheets after a year by handling 1,092 patent infringement cases, up 10.8%; investigating 59 cases of faking other' patent, up 84.4%; handling 601 cases of faking patent identity; performing 327 inter-agency enforcement operations, up 14.7; performing 262 inter-region enforcement operations, up 12.4%; dispatched 17,000 enforcement officers/times; checked 7,671 business premises, up 50%; verified 2.11 million pieces of goods, up 38%.