1.  Domestic Patent Application: inventions, utility models and industrial designs;

2.  Foreign Patent Application

3.  Technical Search and Patent Law Research: Patent Search of Europe, U.S., Japan, Korea, etc

4.  Patent Licensing, Application Right of Patent, Assignment of Patent;

5.  Duration of Patent and Management of Patent Fees；

6.  Filing of Patent Contracts

7.  Litigation Affairs: Dispute over the Patent Infringement, Dispute over Patent Ownership

8.  Re-examination of Patent, invalidation declaration of Patent

PRC Patents

1. The Applicant shall submit the materials for patent application to the Agent in accordance with requirements of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), including word descriptions, drawings or document indicating priority right in foreign patent application, and disburse application fees and agent fees during application phase. The Agent shall submit relevant documents to SIPO for application of patent subsequently.

2. If no rejection reason is found, right of utility models and industrial designs shall be granted to the Applicant after the preliminary examination of SIPO. Examination of Inventions is comprised of two phases: preliminary examination and substantive examination. If no rejection reason is found, right of invention shall be granted after two examination phases of SIPO.

3. The Applicant shall disburse registration fee, certificate fee and annual fee, etc after being granted the patent right by SIPO which shall proceed to certificate issuance and public announcement procedure after the receipt of such fees. 

4. The Applicant will obtain the certificate of Patent within 2 to 3 months after the payment of certificate fees and shall, in accordance with governmental rules, pay annual fee until termination of patent (patent right shall be terminated automatically in case of breaching the payment obligations of annual fees). Patent right shall take effect as of the date of public announcement. 

1. Article 45 of PRC Patent Law states that:“ starting from the date of the announcement of the grant of the patent right by the patent administration department under the State Council, any entity or individual considers that the grant of the said patent right is not in conformity with the relevant provisions of this Law, it or he may request the Patent Reexamination Board to declare the patent right invalid.”For the purpose of protecting the stateliness of Patent Law and interests of public,invalidation declaration procedures are enacted in the patent examination procedure under PRC Patent Law.

2. Anyone requesting invalidation or part invalidation of a patent right shall submit a request to the Patent Reexamination Board stating in detail the grounds for filing the request for invalidation, making reference to all the evidence as submitted, and indicating the piece of evidence on which each ground is based. The request and facts shall be made in duplication. The Applicant could withdraw such application prior to the invalidation decision made by the Board.

3. Where the patentee or the person who made the request for invalidation is not satisfied with the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board declaring the patent right invalid or upholding the patent right, such party may, within three months from receipt of the notification of the decision, institute legal proceedings in the people's court.

(1) Application of Registration of Trademark; 
(2) Assignment of Trademark; 
(3) Change of Trademark; 
(4) Renewal of Trademark; 
(5) Filing of Trademark License Agreement for Record; 
(6) Re-examination of Trademark; 
(7) Opposition of Trademark; 
(8) Cancellation of Trademark; 
(9) International Registration of Trademark; 
(10) Reorganization of Well-known Trademark; 
(11) Draft Trademark related contracts (Trademark Licensing Agreement, Trademark Assignment Agreement, Trademark Pledge Agreement); 
(12) Trademark Litigation; 
(13) Trademark Consulting Service ( Choosing trademark, using and promoting trademark, assisting company to set up trademark strategy and tactics, establishing and improving the system of trademark management)

The Applicant shall submit the following materials to us in case of delegation:-
I.Information of Applicant
Name, address, postal code, contract person , telephone number, fax number, etc. 
II.Identification of Applicant                            
1.Identification of Legal Person or Other Organizations 
Enterprise Legal Person: copy of Company Business License
Institutional Legal Person: Organization Code Certificate of Institutional Legal Person   
Other Organizations: approval letter of local civil administration organ or competent of  local governmental authority
Legal entities of Taiwan Province shall also submit the Notarized Certificate of Corporate Business License (ratified by local court or relevant institution); Legal entities of Hong Kong and Macao SAR shall also submit the copy of Corporate Business License and Notarized Certificates; Foreign Enterprises shall also submit the copy of Corporate Business License and Notarized Certificates (ratified by the embassy of P.R.C in that country).

2.Identification of Natural Person --- Copy of Citizen ID of PRC or copy of other certificate; Foreigner shall also submit copy of passport or copy of certificate of individual identification  (ratified by the embassy of P.R.C in that country).
3.Identification of Agent. Power of Attorney shall be submitted in the event that software copyright owner authorizes the Agent to apply the registration of software copyright on behalf of him.
III.Providing Specimen of Trademark Device

clear trademark specimens

clear photos which can represent the stereoscopic effects in case of application for the registration of Stereoscopic Trademark are required.

IV.Specification of Trademark
Description of meanings of foreign language of trademark device and particular font, specification of stereoscopic and colorful trademark.
V.Goods or Service for Proposed Registration
A trademark used on same category of goods or service shall be applied to be registered at Trademark Office as one trademark. The goods name and service content of proposed registration of trademark shall be specific and consistent with those listed in the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES UNDER THE NICE AGREEMENT. Goods or service, not listed in the Classification Form, shall be registered under similar category in Nice Agreement and distributes relevant instructions indicating primary materials, functions, purpose of usage, sales channel of goods, or characters, subject of service or photos of relevant goods or service.

1、copyright consultation 

2、Computer Software Registration

 Registration Process of Computer Software Copyright

1).The Applicant shall, at assistance of the Agent, submit the following application materials to the Agent:

1.Registration Form of Computer Software Copyright

2.Identification of Applicant

Enterprise Legal Person: copy of Corporate Business License (A4 size paper)

Institutional Legal Person: copy of Organization Code Certificate of Institutional Legal Person (A4 size paper)

Non-Governmental Organization: copy of approval letter of local civil administration organ or competent of local governmental authority (A4 size paper)

3.Software Source Code

Discriminating materials of procedures (source code) and documentation (instructions of software) shall be printed or copied on the internationally standardized A4 size paper. The first 30 pages and the last 30 pages of source code shall be submitted, started from page 1 and ended with page 60. All source code shall be submitted in case of less than 60 pages. Unless otherwise specifically agreed, every page of source code shall be complete and consecutive and not less than 50 lines on each. 2cm shall be reserved on the left for bookbinding in case of printing. Binding line shall be reserved on the left side, page numbers shall be marked on the upper right corner from 1 to 60. Submitted materials should be clean, clear without binding.

4.Instruction Document of Software

An Instruction Document of Software can be one of any following materials:- 

1.Customer Manual; 2. Operation Manual; 3. Specifications of Procedural Design; 4. Maintenance Manual; 5. Detailed Specification (Flow Charter is one of these), etc. (If you demand to submit one extra document, RMB80 of documentation fee shall be charged for each document). Feasibility study report, project development plan, specification of general design and testing analysis report, etc may also be submitted. The first 30 pages and the last 30 pages of the document shall be submitted, started from page 1 and ended with page 60. All documents shall be submitted in case of less than 60 pages. Every page shall not be less than 30 lines and page numbers from 1 to 60 shall also be marked consecutively on the upper right corner.

5.Version instruction shall be submitted in the event that upgraded version (2.0 or above) is proposed to register as original software. 

6.Certificates

The following documents shall be submitted by the Applicant in case of any circumstances listed below:-

Cooperative Development --- Contract of Cooperative Development or Agreement of Cooperative Development

Commissioned development --- Commissioned Development Agreement

Mandatory Development --- Task planning

7.Power of Attorney

2).As of the completion date of all materials for submission, the Agent shall fulfill the registration procedures for computer software copyright and acquire the Certificate of Computer Software Copyright within 2 to 3 months.

Registration Process of Works Copyright

1)The Application shall, at assistance of the Agent, submit the following materials to the Agent (Considering the complexity of works, including sound and visual works, art, etc, we advise the Applicant to consult us first).

1.Original Copy of Works

2.Registration Form of Works

3Non-compulsory Registration Specification of Works

4.Warranty of Rights of Works

5.Power of Attorney

6.Individual Application of Non-compulsory Registration of Works

7.Legal Person or other Organization Application of Non-compulsory Registration of Works

8.Copy of Author’s Identification (for Individual Works)

9.Copy of Corporate Business License (for Legal Person’s Works)

10.Agreement on Copyright Ownership of Works or Acknowledgement of Copyright Ownership of Works for Hire

2).As of the completion date of all materials for submission, the Agent shall fulfill the registration procedures for Copyright of Works and acquire the Certificate of Works Copyright within 2 to 3 months.

Brief Introduction of Customs' Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

　　In order to sustain the normal international trade order, strengthen the protection to intellectual property and promote the healthy economic developments, the State Council of China promulgated the "Customs' Protection Regulations of the People's Republic of China" on July 5, 1995 (hereinafter called "the Regulations"), the Regulations became effective on October 1, 1995. On September 28, 1995, the State Customs' Office of China promulgated "the Implementing Rules of the Customs' Protection Regulations of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter called "the Rules"), the Rules also became effective on October 1, 1995. The State Council amended the Regulations and promulgated it on November 26, 2003,it became effective on March 1, 2004. One April 22, 2004, the State Customs Office of China also amended and promulgated the Rules, which became effective on July 1, 2004.

　　The Customs IP Protection adopts the principle of voluntary request, IP owner wishing to obtain customs IP protection can and should first request for IP rights deposit at the State Customs Office, deposit is the important pre-condition for the Customs to carry out the protection.

　　Anyone who deposited its IP rights at the State Customs Office and obtained the certificates, when finding suspicious goods imported or exported, can request the Customs Office at the local place of importation or exportation to take measures to protect its IP rights, the Customs Office will review the request made by the IP owner to decide whether protection measure should be made or not.

Applications for customs protection of intellectual property rights for the record 
Customs protection of intellectual property rights should be filing an application or their agents (collectively referred to as the applicant) submitted to the General Administration of Customs. Right holders in China do not have any place of business or office, and should be entrusted to an agent of China raised the record to apply. A total of intellectual property rights of any person who has a right to the Customs Department by filing the application, other rights holders no longer need to apply. Intellectual Property Rights customs filing process, including application, examination and certification of three parts. 
The right to delegate the customs in the application to be submitted for the record the following documents: 
1. Customs registration application form (the right to propose to the General Administration of Customs on Customs Protection of filing an application should be filed to receive an application to the Customs in advance. Right holders or their agents shall be as required completing the application form and accompanying documents sent to or sent to General Administration of Customs. 
Made the right person filing the application shall be in accordance with the principle of a right to make an application, that each application can only be in respect of a certificate of intellectual property rights apply. Application for the use of Chinese to complete and produce for examination of the application documents to ensure a true and effective. Filing the application should be required to fill in the following: 
(1) rights. Registration documents in Chinese and English names, where the countries and regions, business license number, legal address, legal representative, contact name, contact phone, fax; agent's name, address, license number, legal representative, contact the name, contact telephone and fax. 
(2) The registered trademark name, registration number, expiration date, authorized the use of goods, patent the name, license number, brief content, expiration date; copyright of the content. 
(3) the name of intellectual property-related goods, commodity codes. 
(4) is authorized or licensed use of intellectual property's name, location, usage and license expiration date. 
(5) and the intellectual property rights related to the main features of the goods, trademarks, trade dress and packaging drawings and photos. 
(6) known to the manufacturer of infringing goods, import and export commodities name, address, suspected infringing goods, the main entry and exit customs. 
(7) The description of commercial secrets. 
(8) Customs Department decided that should be noted that other conditions. ) 
2. The power of attorney signed by the rights of the original; 
3. Of intellectual property rights holders a copy of identity documents, or copies of registration certificate of registration, or certification by the registration authority a copy; have the right of submission of agents authorized to furnish a power of attorney and agent copies of registration certificate of registration parts; the above-mentioned documents should be notarized and certified 
4. Related intellectual property rights to prove, for example: a copy of a registered trade mark a certificate of registration, the Trademark Office approved the assignment of a registered trade mark notice or record a trademark license copy of the contract; or a copy of the patent certificate, registration and public notice by the Patent Office Patent assignment copy of the contract, a copy of the patent license contract; or copyright rights in that document or evidence; 
5. License copy of the contract (in foreign languages to Chinese translation); 
6. The commodity description and photographs. Of the commodity as far as possible into a product photo shoot, a photo packaging. Photo size is 5 inches (12.5cm × 9.5cm) color photo. As more types of goods, you can add attached pages; 
7. Customs Department decided that the other documents to be submitted. 
Produce for examination of documents in foreign languages at the same time to submit a Chinese translation. 
Review. General Administration of Customs, after receipt of all application documents, the application of intellectual property record review, review of content, including the validity of intellectual property rights, whether by the Chinese laws and regulations to protect, whether the scope of customs protection, fill out the application meets the requirements submitted by the accompanying documents are submitted and so on. 
Certification. The Customs Department decided that the receipt of all application documents should be date of 30 days to inform the right people. Any grant record, and to the right person issued a "certificate of record on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights."

Brief Introduction of Registration of Integrated Circuits Layout Design　　　

     For the purpose of protection of exclusive rights on Integrated Circuits Layout Design, the State Council of China promulgated the "Protection Regulations of Integrated Circuits Layout Design" on April 2, 2001, which came into force on October 1, 2001.

　　Said Regulations set integrated circuits layout designs as protection subject, in detail, they refer to the three-dimensional disposition of the two or more elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections of an integrated circuit, or such a three-dimensional disposition prepared for the manufacture of an integrated circuit.

　　The term of protection of the exclusive right of layout-design shall be 10 years counted from the date of filing an application for registration or from the date on which it was first commercially exploited anywhere in the world, whichever expires earlier. However, no matter whether it has been registered or commercially exploited, a layout-design shall no longer be protected under these Regulations 15 years after the date of the completion of its creation.

　　The exclusive right of layout design establishes after registration at the IP Administrative Organization (the State Intellectual Property Office) of the State Council. Layout design not registered does not enjoy protection under the Regulations. Any layout-design, if no application for its registration has been filed with the intellectual property administration department of the State Council within two years from the date on which it was first commercially exploited anywhere in the world, shall no longer be registered by the intellectual property administration department of the State Council.

　　To obtain registration of integrated circuit layout design in China, a foreign applicant should entrust a Chinese agency (like our firm) to file the application at the IP Administrative Organization of the State Council.

1, the application stage: 
(1) The layout-design registration application form; 
(2) The layout of the copy or drawing; 
(3) The layout-design has been put into commercial use, and integrated circuit incorporating the layout-design samples; 
(4) intellectual property administration department under the State Council, other materials. 
2, the review stage: 
Layout-design registration application for a preliminary examination found no cause for rejection by the intellectual property administration department of the State Council shall register, issue the registration certificate and announce it. 3, follow-up procedures: 
 Applicant for registration of layout-design intellectual property administration department of the State Council rejected his application for registration satisfied with the decision may, from the date of receipt of the notification within 3 months, to the intellectual property administration department of the State Council a request for reexamination. Intellectual property administration department of the State Council shall, after reexamination, make a decision and notify the layout-design registration of the applicant. Applicant for registration of layout-design intellectual property administration department of the review of the decision is still dissatisfied, he may from the date of receipt of the notification within 3 months people's court. 
Layout after the registration of intellectual property administration department of the State Council found that the registration does not comply with requirements of the Ordinance and should be revoked, notify the layout-design right holders, and announce it. Layout-design right holders of intellectual property administration department of the State Council satisfied with the decision to withdraw the registration of layout-design may be from the date of receipt of the notification within 3 months people's court.

1.Consultation for strategic management of intellectual property

2.Patent related issues during product development and product import and export

The office has adopted on advanced management software to manage the whole process before and after patent application,assigned person to supervise the whole procedure of patent application and its legal status check-up after being licensed as well as the fee related issues.

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I.  Protection Scope of Patent Right

SCOPE OF TRADEMARK RIGHT

PROTECTION SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT OF LITERARY PROPERTY

1. The Copyright Owner shall have the following rights:

(1) Right of publication, i.e., the right to decide whether or not a work is to be made available to the public;

(2) Right of authorship, i.e., the right to indicate the identity of the author of a work by affixing the author's name thereto;

(3) Right of alteration, i.e., the right to alter or authorize others to alter a work;

(4) Right of integrity, i.e., the right to protect a work from being distorted or falsified;

(5) Right of reproduction, i.e., the right to make one or more copies of a work by means of printing, photocopying, rubbing, sound recording, visual recording, duplicating a sound or visual recording, duplicating a photographic work, etc.;

2. The limitation of Copyright

(1) Fair use

(2) Statutory License

3. Unprotected Scope of Copyright Law

(1). Works that are prohibited from publication or dissemination, as specified by law, shall not be protected under this Law.

(2) Works that violates the Constitution, any other laws or harms the public interests;

(3) Laws, regulations, government organs' resolutions, decisions, orders, and other documents of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature, or their official translations

(4) News on current events; and

(5) Calendars, numerical tables or forms of general use, and formulas.

Determination of Infringement of Copyright

1. Determination of Infringement

(1) Infringement shall be occurred within the territory of China;

(2) No-willful or negligence existed;

(3) Same or substantially identification with works with copyright;

(4) Causality existed between infringement works and works with copyright;

2. Types of Infringement

(1) Publishing a work without the copyright owner's authorization;

(2) Publishing a work jointly created with others as a work solely created by oneself, without the other joint author(s)' authorization;

(3) Affixing one's name to another's work for one's own fame and profit, without participating in the creation thereof;

(4) Distorting or falsifying another's work;

(5) Plagiarizing another's work;

(6) Using a work, without the copyright owner's authorization, through exhibition or by means of cinematography or similar thereto, or in ways such as adaptation, translation, or annotation, unless otherwise specified in this Law;

(7) Using another's work without paying remuneration that is due and payable;

(8) Renting out a cinematographic work, a work created by means similar to cinematography, computer software, or a sound or visual recording, without the authorization of the copyright owner(s) or copyright-related right owner(s), unless otherwise specified in this Law;

(9) Using the layout of a book or periodical published by a publisher, without the publisher's authorization;

(10) Live broadcasting or publicly transmitting a performer's live performance, or recording the performance without the performer's authorization; or

(11) Reproducing, distributing, performing, projecting, broadcasting or compiling a work, or disseminating the work to the public via information network without the copyright owner's authorization, except as otherwise specified in this Law;

(12) Publishing a book in which another person has the exclusive right of publication;

(13) Reproducing and/or distributing a sound or visual recording of a performance, or disseminating the performance to the public via information network without the performer's authorization, except as otherwise specified in this Law;

(14) Reproducing and/or distributing a sound or visual recording, or disseminating such a recording to the public via information network without the producer's authorization, except as otherwise specified in this Law;

(15) Broadcasting or reproducing a radio or television program without authorization, except as otherwise specified in this Law;

(16) Intentionally circumventing or destroying, without the authorization of the copyright owner or copyright-related right owner, the technological measures applied by the copyright owner or copyright-related right owner to protect the right owner's copyright or copyright-related rights in a work, sound recording, visual recording, etc., except as otherwise specified in laws or administrative regulations;

(17) Intentionally removing or modifying the right management information in electronic form contained in a work, sound recording, visual recording, etc., without authorization of the copyright owner or copyright-related right owner, except as otherwise provided by laws or administrative regulations; or

(18) Producing or selling a work involving passing off of another's name as one's own.

III. Protection Methods of Copyright

1. Execution Methods of Rights

(1) The copyright owner who registers the copyright shall execute its right by the certificate of registration.

(2) The copyright owner shall authorize within the following scopes to protect its right through the organization for collective copyright management (Music Copyright Society of China, China Audio-Video Copyright Association):-

Negotiating, entering into contract, licensing the potential person with intension to use the copyright;

Charging agreed royalty fees to the licensed users;

Transferred the charging fees deducted by certain proportion of management fees to the relevant right owner;

Where relevant works are used by other people without consent, the right owner may bring an action or arbitration against the relevant parties about the copyright or neighboring right when necessary.

2. Mediation and Settlement

(1) People's Court shall distinguish right from wrong and conduct mediation in accordance with the principle of the voluntariness of the parties concerned and on the basis that the facts of the case are clear. When an agreement is reached through mediation, the people's court concerned shall prepare a mediation document. The mediation document shall be legally effective after being signed by the parties concerned as a receipt.

(2) During the mediation, the arbitration tribunal shall hold mediation between two parties. When an agreement is reached through mediation, the arbitration tribunal concerned shall prepare a mediation document. The mediation document shall be legally effective after being signed by the parties concerned as a receipt.

(3) The parties concerned may reach settlement on their own. Such settlement shall have the equal effect with general contract. 

3. Judicial Protection

(1) Plaintiff Qualification

Copyright owner and copyright related obligees infringed;  

After being authorized by the copyright owner, an organization for collective copyright management may claim rights in its own name.

(2) Jurisdiction

People’s court shall accept the following civil cases that involve copyright disputes:

Cases involving copyright or copyright-related rights and interests on ownership, infringement and contract disputes;

Cases involving an application to stop an infringement of copyright or copyright-related rights and interests prior to filing an action, or for property or evidence preservation prior to filing an action; and

Other cases involving disputes over copyright or copyright-related rights and interests

(3) Court with Jurisdiction

Civil cases involving copyright disputes shall be under the jurisdiction of a people's court at an intermediate level or above.

Each high people's court may, according to the actual situation of its respective jurisdiction, designate a number of basic people's courts to govern first instance civil cases involving copyright disputes.

(5) Pre-litigation Measures

a. Requirement of cessation of infringement and property preservation;

b. Application for evidence preservation;

(6) Limitation of Action

The statute of limitation for instituting an action on copyright infringement is two years, to be commenced from the date when the copyright owner is or should be aware of the infringement. If a right owner files an action after the expiration of the two-year period, and the infringement continues to exist at the time when the action is filed, a people's court shall, within the term of protection for the copyright, rule to order the defendant to cease the infringement. Compensation for the infringement shall be calculated starting from two years before the date when the copyright owner filed the action with the people's court.

Iv. Liability of Copyright Infringement

1. Civil Liability

(1) Ceasing the infringement,

(2) Eliminating the impacts

(3) Making an apology

(4) Compensating for the losses (compensation shall be subject to the actual loss of copyright owner; If actual losses of the copyright owner cannot be easily determined, the compensation amount may be the illegal gains by the infringee.

If the losses of the patentee or the benefit of the infringer cannot be easily determined, the compensation amount may be a reasonable number of times of the royalties of that patent.

(5) Impose reprimand on the liable person;

(6) Order the liable person to sign a statement of repentance

(7) Confiscate the property used in and the illegal gains from the illegal activities and impose fines

2. Criminal Liability

(1) Infringement of Copyright

Where illegal amount is large or circumstances are so serious as to constitute a crime, the following shall be considered as a crime:-

Reproducing writing works, music, movies, television, videos, computer software and other works without consents of copyright owner;

Publishing a book in which another person has the exclusive right of publication;

Reproducing and issuing audio-visual recordings without consents of audio-visual producer;

Producing or selling arts work involving passing off of another's name as one's own.

(2) Selling Unauthorized Duplicates of Copyrighted Works

Selling under the circumstances in section (1) with purpose of making profits and if illegal amount is large,  the seller shall be convicted and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention with the concurrent imposition of a fine, or shall be subject to a fine alone or simultaneously.

V. Relevant Laws and Regulations

1. Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China

2. Copyright Law Implementing Regulations of the People's Republic of China

3. Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related to the Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases Involving Illegal Publication 

4. Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases Involving Copyright Disputes

5. Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related to the Application of Law in the Trial of Cases Involving Computer Network Copyright Disputes

6. Regulations on Collective Copyright Management

7. Measures for the Implementation of Copyright Administrative Penalties.

Scope of the customs protection of intellectual property 
 China Customs scope of protection of intellectual property as defined by the following two conditions: 
1. Must be with the entry and exit of goods related to intellectual property rights. Under the "Regulations" the provisions of Article III and the international practice, China's customs authorities of the object of protective measures is limited to import and export goods. The right way to China, transit, Transportation and transit goods infringing goods, due to the consignor or consignee and the place of dispatch and arrival places are all places outside China, so China's Customs does not usually act on them. 
2. Protected object be limited to trademark rights, patent rights and copyright registration through the initiative. Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights are not exactly the same as for all by the Chinese laws and administrative regulations to protect intellectual property rights. For example, are "The People's Republic of China Against Unfair Competition Act" set up to protect trade names, trade secrets and appellation of origin such as from China Customs Protection.

To apply for IPR customs protection. 
General Administration of Customs for the record has been found that the applicant suspected infringing goods pending the entry and exit, and can position the goods out of Customs to take protection measures for intellectual property rights. 

Request the Customs to take measures for intellectual property protection should submit the following documents and materials: 
                  1. Customs and Excise Department an application for protective measures 
                  2. The power of attorney signed by the rights of the original; 
                  3. The suspected infringing goods, material objects, pictures or other evidence. 
                  4. The right's "record certificate" and proof of identity. 
                  5. The rights of people suspected infringing goods detained by Customs and Excise Department made the request and submitted with the CIF value of imported goods or export goods, fob equivalent guarantees, the failure to determine the CIF or FOB price, should be assessed according to the Customs to submit the amount determined. 
 If the protective measures to withdraw the application, the applicant should be suspected infringing goods detained by Customs and Excise Department's decision to submit a written application to the Customs and Excise Department.

1. Protection Scope

(1) Contents of Protection

Right of Reproduction; Right of Commercial Usage; Restraining Power; Assignment Right;

Right of License Use; Right of Co-owner; Right of Waiver

(2) Limitation of Rights

     Statutory License

     Exhaustion of Rights

2. Types of Infringement

(1) Illegal Reproduction means the act of reproducing all or any part of a protected layout-design or any original part of such lay-out;

(2) Illegal commercial exploitation means the act of importing, selling or providing in any other form, for commercial purposes, a protected layout-design, an integrated circuit in which the layout-design is incorporated, or an article incorporating such an integrated circuit, without the license of others.

3. Protection Methods

(1) Administrative Protection

Right shall be protected by the Execution Committee of Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits, State Intellectual Property Office.

(2) Judicial Protection

Scope of acceptance of cases:

Cases involving disputes over the ownership of the exclusive right to a layout design;

Cases involving disputes over contracts concerning the assignment of the exclusive right to a layout design;

Cases involving disputes over the infringement of the exclusive right to a layout design;

Cases involving application for pre-litigation cessation of infringement or property preservation;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with re-examination decisions on rejection of the applications for the registration of layout designs made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property ;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with decisions to cancel applications for the registration of layout designs made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with decisions on non-voluntary license of layout designs made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with rulings on non-voluntary license royalties for layout designs made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with decisions on settlement of infringement of the exclusive right to a layout design made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property;

Cases involving dissatisfaction with administrative review decisions made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property; or

Other cases involving layout designs

Court with Jurisdiction:

Cases involving dissatisfaction with decisions or ruling made by the State Council's administrative department for intellectual property shall be subject to the jurisdiction of Beijing No. 1 intermediate People’s Court for first instance;

Other cases involving layout designs shall be subject to the jurisdiction of an intermediate people's court at the place where the people's government of the province, the autonomous region, the municipality or special economic zone directly under the Central Government is located or an intermediate people's court located in Daliang, Qingdao, Wenzhou, Fusha and Yantai for first instance.

Mark of Origin

1. Mark of Origin shall mean markings, wordings, designs and certificates related to the origins indicating the country or region of a product or service.  

2. The following marks of origin shall be registered:-

(1) Products or goods marked with “Made in China”;

(2) Products or goods applying for the protection of mark of origin;

(3) Importing goods concerning safety, hygienic and environmental protection;

(4) Products shall be marked with origin by the state stipulations.

IV. Name of Manufacturer

Name of manufacturer shall mean the name or trade name of the enterprise operated by the business man. It is used to distinguish different manufacturers or sellers.