Mingjie ZHANG
On April 20, on the eve of the World Intellectual Property Day, Quality Brands Protection Committee of China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment ( QBPC) co-hosted an online IP enforcement skills training and exchange meeting with Dalian, Shenyang, Changchun and Harbin Customs. Deputy Director Wang Wei of Department of General Operation of Dalian Customs gave an opening speech. He said that the online training was not only an important form of strengthening the exchanges and cooperation between local customs, but also an important way to promote exchanges between customs and enterprises. Protecting intellectual property rights meant protecting innovation. The relevant customs would deepen the border protection of intellectual property rights, continue to step up efforts to crack down on infringements in import and export, support the innovation of enterprises and conscientiously implement the important instructions on intellectual property rights protection delivered by President Xi Jinping.
Representatives of Amazon Kindle Business, Qualcomm, 3M, Anta, Apple, Cisco Systems, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Epson, Longchamp, LVMH Asia Pacific Ltd., Major League Baseball and Midea Group each made a 10-minute presentation about techniques of seizing counterfeits and categories of brand products.
Customs Committee Vice Chair Jerry Yang summarized this online meeting. He said the exchange was timely and necessary. The training had shortened the distance between customs and enterprises, and the protection of intellectual property rights was impossible without the joint efforts of relevant parties. He also expressed thanks to the customs officials and representatives of QBPC member companies.
More than 700 QBPC member representatives and Customs officials in IP protection-related posts of Dalian, Shenyang, Changchun and Harbin Customs participated in real-time online training. This event was not only the first online training held by QBPC and the customs in 2021, but also the first training jointly held by four customs in the northeast China on IPR protection which achieved good results. Under the new situation, QBPC will continue to actively carry out various forms of exchange activities with local customs and work with them to promote the customs protection of IP to a new level.