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Trademark registration sees rapid growth
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-17 15:32
China's trademark applications grew on an average of 25.2 percent a year
in the first five years of the decade, more than double the growth rate
of the country's gross domestic product.
By the end of 2005, 132 countries and regions had filed a total of 2.499
million trademark applications in China, of which 442,000 applications
came from other countries, according to official statistics released here
Monday from the China Achievements Exhibition for Intellectual Property
Protection (IPR).
The exhibition, the first in China highlighting intellectual property,
opened on Sunday at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's
Revolution in Beijing.
China has ranked first in the world in the number of trademark
applications for the past four years, according to the exhibition
organized by China's 11 IPR-related governmental organizations which
include the Ministry of Commerce, State Administration of Industry and
Commerce, State Administration of Customs and the Bureau of Public
Securities.
Trademark registration was first implemented in China in 1981. In the
first 14 years trademark applications averaged 100,000 a year. Last year
that number reached 400,000.
China's overseas trademark applications have also been on rise. In 1989,
the State Administration of Industry and Commerce only received four
applications to register overseas trademarks. By the end of 2005,
however, the number has climbed to 1,334, up 31.4 percent over 2004,
statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization disclosed.
As part of China's 2006 Intellectual Property Rights Protection Week, the
eight-day exhibition aims to spread IPR related knowledge to the general
public and epitomize the country's achievements in protecting trademarks,
patents and copyright as well as customs and judicial affairs.
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