Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles to set up on-site IPR office
05 Jun '06
3 min read
An on-site IPR office will be a real confidence boost for those showing their work at 'Designer's Studio'. Messe Frankfurt leads the way in aligning its IPR policy with the China government's efforts to stamp out copyright offenders with its CRP.
The CRP is a government led consultancy service related to IPR, comprising local Bureau officers of Intellectual Property and Administration of Industry and Commerce and lawyers specializing in IPR protection. The CRP will review IPR disputes, giving exhibitors effective recourse to the law. If products exhibited by any other exhibitor infringe their patent, trademark or copyrights, they can now file complaints directly with the CRP.
The CRP will notify potential IPR offenders, requesting them to respond within one day and submit the required documents and proof of their legitimacy. Failing to submit relevant documents gives the CRP the right to request the respondent to suspend the display of exhibits; to destroy and suspend distribution of advertising material and remove offenders exhibiting boards. Exhibitors in question will not be allowed to re-exhibit with the same material.
Where any person commits a patent infringement, illegal incomes shall be confiscated. Offenders may be fined up to 3 times their illegal income and subject to fines of up to RMB50,000.
In an effort to help further the clamp down on copyright infringement, Messe Frankfurt now requires exhibitors to submit a warrantyfor the exhibits. The exhibitor must prepare in advance all the IPR certificates or the legal and valid licenses with respect to Exhibits.
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