Beijing
Online music providers sign self-discipline agreement
More than 20 domestic online music service providers signed an agreement on copyright self-discipline at a conference held by the National Copyright Administration. According to the agreement, the companies will use music only after being licensed. They were also asked to improve their copyright management systems to notify right owners when using their works and were encouraged to solve copyright disputes via negotiation or mediation.
China Culture Daily
Patent applications soar
The State Intellectual Property Office handled 1.12 million patent applications in the first half of this year, up 20.5 percent from the same period last year. The number of invention patent applications increased 20.9 percent to reach 424,000, the growth rate almost doubling that of the same period in 2014. The office authorized 749,000 patents in the past six months, including 161,000 invention patents.
Guangming Daily
Liaoning
China, UK discuss innovation, protection, industrialization
The 12th Sino-UK intellectual property salon was held last week at Dalian University of Technology. Co-hosted by the city's intellectual property office, the UK embassy in China and the university, the salon invited scholars and IP officials from both countries to discuss topics including innovation, patent protection and the integration of invention and industrialization.
Dalian Daily
Jiangsu
IP aid center helps outdoor goods trade show attendees
The State Intellectual Property Aid (Jiangsu) Center helped exhibitors and visitors at the Asia Outdoor Trade Show 2015 in Nanjing from July 23 to 26. The center used posters in Chinese and English to inform people how to protect IP rights at the outdoor goods show and handed out 300 IP publicity packs. The center handled seven complaints about infringement of IP rights and offered IP-related consultations on the site.
sipo.gov.cn
Shandong
First China-South Korea book copyright fair held
The first China-South Korea book copyright trade fair was held last week in Jinan. Co-organized by Shandong Publishing Group Ltd and South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the event attracted nearly 18 domestic and 30 Korean publishers, who brought more than 1,000 books with them. China is one of the most important overseas book markets for South Korea, with copyrights of more than 1,200 books traded between the two countries last year, said Doh Jae-Kyung, vice-president of Korea Creative Content Agency.
iqilu.com
Gansu
Intangible cultural heritage survey gets underway
A one-week survey on intangible cultural heritage along the Silk Road launched at the Northwest Normal University on Sunday. Reporters at China Education Daily and more than 30 teachers and students from eight Chinese universities went to the Gannan Tibet autonomous prefecture in the province to carry out the survey. They plan to inquire about the protection and inheritance of local intangible cultural heritage items, including painting Thang-ga, traditional Tibetan scroll pictures.
nwnu.edu.cn
Hainan
Hardware stores fined over trademark infringement
Owners of nine hardware stores in the province agreed to pay 8,000 yuan ($1,288) each to a Guangdong-based lighting facility maker for violating its trademark rights, under the mediation of the provincial court. The nine stores, in Wenchang and Qionghai cities, bought tungsten halogen lamps labeled as Fen Jiang, which is recognized as a famous trademark of Guangdong province, from visiting salesmen, but they did not examine if the products were genuine.
Hainan Special Zone Daily
(China Daily 07/29/2015 page17)
