China News Service, September 10. According to the WeChat public account of "Shishuoxinyu", on the morning of September 10, the Second International Exchange Conference on Intellectual Property Law Enforcement, co-sponsored by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the World Intellectual Property Organization, opened in Changsha City, Hunan Province. Bai Qingyuan, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, Edward Quakua, assistant director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and Jiang Difei, deputy governor of Hunan Province, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
Hunan Province, the host country of this conference, stated that it will use this conference as an opportunity to continue to deepen internal and external cooperation in the field of intellectual property protection and law enforcement, promote cross-border collaborative law enforcement with a higher position, improve protection and law enforcement capabilities with more practical measures, promote global innovation collaboration with a better ecology, proactively integrate with international rules, and help Hunan enterprises steadily "sail overseas."
The World Intellectual Property Organization fully affirms the intellectual property enforcement work of the State Administration for Market Regulation and its partnership with it, and especially highly appreciates this conference. At the same time, it was pointed out that the digital transformation of the economy has brought many challenges to intellectual property protection, and international cooperation is the key to addressing these challenges. WIPO will continue to be committed to working with 194 member states and global partners to promote effective intellectual property enforcement and promote greater respect for intellectual property.
The EU Anti-Fraud Agency expressed its gratitude to China for building this good exchange and cooperation platform. At present, the rapid development of technology has brought many challenges to intellectual property protection that transcend national boundaries. International cooperation, especially trust-based cooperation, is an important tool to deal with the challenges of intellectual property violations. He also shared the EU's international cooperation work on intellectual property protection that focuses on "protecting fiscal revenue, maintaining public security, and ensuring healthy economic development."
In recent years, the State Administration for Market Regulation has always adhered to the concept of cooperation and openness, actively expanded cross-border cooperation in intellectual property law enforcement, established regular cooperation mechanisms with law enforcement agencies in many countries and regions, signed a series of cooperation memorandums, promoted notification of case clues, information sharing, joint investigations and coordinated law enforcement, promptly handled foreign-related intellectual property complaints, and equally protected the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign rights holders in accordance with the law. Signed a memorandum of cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization, jointly organized the "Combating Infringement and Counterfeiting" Hongqiao International Forum and the International Exchange Conference on Intellectual Property Law Enforcement, promoted the establishment of a regular law enforcement experience exchange mechanism, and continuously enhanced the breadth and depth of participation in global intellectual property governance.
In the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation will further promote international cooperation in intellectual property law enforcement, accelerate the improvement of intellectual property protection rules in frontier areas, continue to deepen cross-border cooperation in intellectual property law enforcement, improve the global intellectual property governance mechanism, and promote the formation of a larger and more effective global intellectual property governance synergy.
