FunPlus Phoenix (FPX) jungler Gao Tian-Liang competes against Topsports Gaming in their Third Place Match of the LPL Spring Playoffs 2019 in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, on April 17, 2019. [Photo/IC]
Further, the fine for those who maliciously damage others' trademarks has increased to 5 million yuan from 3 million yuan since the revised Trademark Law came into effect on Nov 1.
Fu Xiaolan, director of the technology and management center for development at the University of Oxford, said the growth in the number of patents being filed in Europe by Chinese companies reflects their "innovation, growing appreciation of the importance of IP protection, and preparation for further internationalization".
Further improvements in judicial safeguards are made in recent years, with the establishment of the intellectual property courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the specialised IP tribunals in 15 cities. Public awareness of IPR has been notably increased, evidenced by over 210,000 first instance court cases and over 40,000 administrative cases last year involving IP disputes and patent enforcement respectively. In 2017, China paid .6 billion in intellectual property royalties to overseas rights owners, up from .9 billion dollars in 2001 when China joined the WTO.
GW: We are just a very close to Amazon here. I was surprised you didn’t address that specifically. What would be your message for Jeff Bezos and Amazon?
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Gao Chengyong is given the death penalty at the Baiyin Intermediate People's Court in Gansu province on March 30, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Gan started to collect the papers after he took the exam in 1977. After completing the gaokao, Gan enrolled in Jiangxi University to study physics and bid farewell to his life as a factory worker. He became an engineer after graduation.
Further details of the joint venture, such as investment and the exact stakes of each company, have not been disclosed.