2002年-2003年北京知识产权保护状况

前 言

2002年--2003年北京市知识产权工作呈现出蓬勃发展的良好势头。开展了大规模的知识产权宣传教育，加大了知识产权管理与保护力度，不断推动知识产权执法体系建设，下大力气整顿和规范市场经济秩序，全社会知识产权保护意识明显提高，专利申请量、商标注册量大幅增长 ,对提高北京核心竞争力，进一步扩大对外开放，促进北京市科技、经济发展和社会的全面进步起到了重要作用。为进一步优化首都发展环境，不断完善北京知识产权保护工作，有必要建立北京知识产权保护状况白皮书（以下简称《白皮书》）定期发布制度，以增强知识产权执法工作的透明度，更好地接受社会监督。

根据国家知识产权局国知发管字[2003]68号通知要求，结合北京实际情况，北京市知识产权局牵头组织了《白皮书》的起草，在起草过程中，参考了其它省市已发布的知识产权保护状况白皮书，并广泛征求了有关知识产权部门的意见。

《白皮书》较全面地反映了2002年-2003年北京各知识产权部门的工作，特别是以翔实的数据记录了各知识产权部门在打击知识产权侵权违法行为，保护知识产权权利人合法权益，维护首都良好市场经济秩序方面所作出的贡献。

一、北京市人民政府高度重视知识产权工作

北京市人民政府高度重视知识产权工作，将其作为增强城市综合竞争力、改善北京投资环境的重大工作来抓。北京市政府根据有关法律、法规，尊重并保护包括外国人在内的知识产权权利人的合法权益。

为全面加强知识产权保护，2001年市政府发布了《关于加强知识产权工作的意见》（京政发[2001]47号）。2003年4月，市委市政府在《关于进一步优化发展环境的意见》和《进一步优化发展环境实施方案》中，进一步明确提出：“加大知识产权保护力度”，“坚决查处各种知识产权违法案件,及时处理知识产权纠纷,有效遏制假冒、盗版等侵权现象，推动科技研发和技术创新”，把加强知识产权保护，切实保护知识产权权利人的合法权益，营造开放、公平、有序的市场环境作为进一步优化首都发展环境的重要组成部分。市委书记刘淇，市长王岐山等市领导分别多次针对全市涉外知识产权案件、整顿和规范市场经济秩序、外商投资企业知识产权保护等涉及知识产权的问题作了重要批示。市人大、市政协通过调研、建议、提案、监督等方式，积极推动地方知识产权法规建设及知识产权管理工作的完善。2000年，北京市知识产权办公会议成员单位由原来的14个部门增加到25个。统一、高效的全市知识产权协调机制的建立，在整合知识产权行政管理和执法部门的力量，加强对知识产权违法行为的打击力度，维护市场经济秩序，促进与境外知识产权组织和机构的合作与交流等方面，发挥着愈来愈重要的作用。

为提高市民知识产权法律意识，营造尊重知识产权、保护知识产权的社会氛围，市知识产权各相关部门围绕4?26“世界知识产权日”，开展了大规模的系列宣传活动。利用广播、电视、报纸、期刊、网络等媒体开展全方位的知识产权法律法规宣传；举办大型宣传咨询活动；举办北京地区版权贸易成果展 ；打击软件盗版实物成果展；组织培训班、讲座、报告会；多部门联合执法等多种形式，向广大市民宣传知识产权知识，努力提高北京保护知识产权，运用世贸规则参与国际竞争的意识和能力。

2002年10月，北京市知识产权局、国际保护知识产权协会中国分会、北京知识产权研究会及中国贸促会专利商标事务所共同主办了“2000年北京国际知识产权论坛”。北京市副市长林文漪、世界知识产权组织总干事特别顾问于尔根?施密特?德维尔曼、国家知识产权局副局长田力普、国家版权局副局长沈仁干等领导出席了论坛开幕式。

2003年4月，针对第七届“市领导与跨国公司代表座谈会”上跨国公司提出的建立诚信、规则意识和查处知识产权侵权行为的快速反应机制等问题，根据主管全市知识产权工作的范伯元副市长的批示，市知识产权局局长刘东威带队走访了“通用电器公司”，在广泛调研的基础上,协调市工商局、市版权局、北京海关等部门，研究制定了《进一步优化首都知识产权保护环境的措施》。

2003年，为贯彻落实全国整顿和规范市场经济秩序领导小组的统一部署，市知识产权局、市工商局、市版权局和市公安局等部门，根据市整顿和规范市场经济秩序领导小组《关于开展保护知识产权专项打假行动》的通知精神，在全市范围内开展了联合打假行动，重点打击了假冒、冒充专利，假冒注册商标、销售假冒驰名商标商品，制售盗版图书、音像制品、计算机软件，街头非法贩卖盗版光盘和盗印畅销图书等违法行为。

2003年10月27 日， 国家知识产权局和北京市人民政府共同设立的中关村国家知识产权制度示范园区正式挂牌，通过逐步建立有效的知识产权管理制度、工作体系以及完善的工作机制，促进园区内合理的知识产权保护环境的形成。目前，已有中关村知识产权促进局、国家知识产权局北京专利代办处、知识产权巡回审理庭、北京市工商局驻园区商标办事处、北京市版权局软件登记中心和版权服务中心等6家机构进驻园区，开展相关知识产权管理服务和重点保护工作。

2003年10月31日，市高级人民法院举办了“北京法院知识产权裁判文书上网新闻发布会”，市高级人民法院副院长朱江通报了有关情况。自2003年11月1日起全市法院知识产权裁判文书全部上网发布。

2003年11月26-28日, 受国家版权局委托,市版权局承办了世界知识产权组织在北京举办的关于“《世界知识产权组织版权条约》、《世界知识产权组织表演和录音制品条约》中‘向公众传播权’巡回研讨会”。来自瑞士、匈牙利、美国、日本及世界知识产权组织的多名专家进行了演讲，并与北京地区互联网企业家、法官、学者及版权行政管理人员就相关问题进行了研讨。

二、知识产权行政执法工作成效显著

（一）专利保护

2002年-2003年，市知识产权局共受理各类专利纠纷案件58件，其中发明专利9件，实用新型28 件，外观设计21件，涉外案件6件，查处假冒、冒充专利案件15件。重点加强了对本市大中型商场、超市和小商品批发市场的专利商品检查，同时与市商务局共同完成了50家“无冒充专利商场”的评定和规范工作，使冒充专利商品在流通领域得到了控制。根据每年对北京地区流通领域标有专利标记商品的抽检统计，流通领域冒充专利行为的比例已从1997年的25%下降到2002年的5.29%。

市知识产权局加强了对会展业知识产权的保护。2002年10月17日，市知识产权局受理了德国巴马格股份公司就郑州、上海、杭州三家企业在中国纺织机械展览会上展示的纺织机械侵犯其发明专利权的调处请求，并立即采取措施，及时、有效的制止了侵犯知识产权的行为。

2003年4月，根据国家知识产权局部署，北京市成立了专利代理人惩戒委员会，以加强对代理活动中的各种违法行为、代理机构行为规范化、服务标准化的监管。2003年底，我市专利代理机构总数已达123家，其中涉外代理机构24家。

（二）商标保护

市工商局加大了对假冒商标和商标侵权大、要案的执法力度，2002年-2003年共办理假冒商标和商标侵权案件2,285件，罚款904万元，查扣物品涉案案值8,078万元，没收销毁假冒侵权商标标识240万件（套），移送司法机关6人次。

2002年，在新商标法及其实施条例实施后，市工商局组织部分分局进行了大规模的执法活动。其中，在大红门服装商贸城查抄了2万多件侵权服装，对近10家侵犯“三千里”商标权的烤肉店进行了摘牌。

2003年4月，市工商局接到英国费德里克.沃恩有限公司投诉两家出版社侵犯其商标专用权，东城、西城两个工商分局商标科的同志克服“非典”带来的困难，及时采取了措施，制止了侵权行为的扩大，维护了外国商标权利人的合法权益，该公司送来了锦旗和感谢信，对市政府保护知识产权的工作给予了高度赞扬。

（三）著作权保护

2002年-2003年，市版权局共完成著作权行政处罚案件41件，罚款112.3万元，进行著作权纠纷调解66件，落实对著作权人赔偿225万元，案件处理率达到90%以上。2003年，没收侵权音像制品422,529盘、侵权软件60余万张。开展了《关于在整顿和规范市场经济秩序工作中加速工程勘察设计行业软件正版化的通知》的落实工作，组织了对重点企业的检查。继续把整治侵权预装软件，打击侵权复制使用软件，推动计算机软件正版化作为重要工作，坚持紧抓不放。

2003年，市版权局联合市科委、市公安局、市工商局研究制定了《关于加强计算机软件保护工作的意见》，9月至12月开展了历时百天的集中打击软件盗版2003专项治理行动?D枫叶行动，使北京地区软件市场版权秩序明显好转，电脑制售企业预装软件的整治成果得到进一步巩固，终端用户非法复制软件的行为得到扭转，正版化进一步推进，针对网络领域传播作品行为的版权监管逐步深入。

2003年9月，市政府授权各区县文化委员会承担本行政区域版权行政管理和行政执法职能，版权行政管理体制改革迈出重要一步。

三、知识产权司法保护力度进一步加大

2002年-2003年，市各级法院知识产权庭共受理各类一审知识产权纠纷案件1999件，审结一审案件1975件，在受理的一审知识产权案件中，著作权纠纷案件1012件，占50%；专利纠纷案件473件，占24%；技术合同纠纷案件212件，占11%；不正当竞争纠纷案件167件，占8%；商标纠纷案件139件，占7%。

2002年12月18日,市高院审结了瑞士英特莱格公司诉天津可高玩具公司侵犯著作权案，法院认定原告的“乐高”积木玩具具有一定的艺术创作高度，应当被认为是实用艺术作品。被告制造的同类玩具侵犯了原告的著作权。故依据《著作权法》、《实施国际著作权条约的规定》，判令被告停止侵权、公开致歉、赔偿原告经济损失5万元。

北京法院审理知识产权案件不仅切实保证裁判结果的公正，而且还高度重视案件处理的社会效果。2003年10月,在市高院的成功调解下，引起广泛关注的法国拉科斯特衬衫股份有限公司诉香港鳄鱼恤有限公司侵犯商标权纠纷案得到了圆满解决，双方当事人就有关“鳄鱼”商标的使用等问题自愿达成了调解协议，同时对北京知识产权司法保护水平给予了高度赞赏。

四、知识产权海关边境保护得到加强

2002年，北京海关查处侵权案件两起，均为商标侵权，涉案金额人民币8万元。

2003年，北京海关深入贯彻执行《北京海关知识产权保护实施细则》、《北京海关法规处与现场海关关于知识产权侵权案件联系配合办法》，完善北京海关知识产权联络员制度 ,同时加大了知识产权宣传力度，使得更多企业对于海关的行政执法有了更新更深刻的认识。2003年共查处侵权案件9起，涉及侵犯著作权和商标权，涉案标的额约8万美金。

五、音像市场知识产权保护得到增强

近两年，市文化局通过加强电影放映许可证制度和影片上映档期制度的管理，有效杜绝了电影市场非法复制盗版电影拷贝的现象，同时加强了对娱乐市场和录像放映场所使用音像制品情况的检查。

六、公安机关知识产权保护工作成绩显著

2002年，全市公安机关共查处制贩、传播非法出版物案件2，600余起，收缴非法出版物422万件，抓获犯罪嫌疑人3,826人。市公安局还分阶段、有重点地组织开展了四次专项治理行动，行动期间，出动警力2万余人次。

2003年，全市公安机关共查处制贩淫秽、盗版非法出版物案件1,655起，收缴盗版书刊、音像制品475万件，抓获犯罪嫌疑人2,252人。全年共打掉万张以上批发贩卖淫秽、盗版音像制品窝点87个，收缴各类非法出版物370余万件。

七、UL标志打假取得新进展

2002年，北京出入境检验检疫局共查出涉嫌假冒UL货物37.86万件，货值1,200余万元，销毁假冒UL纸标签288.6万余张。

2003年，北京出入境检验检疫局，共查出涉嫌假冒UL货物6.1万件，货值11万美元，货物涉及消防铸铁管件、蓄电池、夜灯及电动机。

八、奥运知识产权保护全面开展

全市各有关部门十分重视加强奥林匹克知识产权的保护工作，严格执行《奥林匹克标志保护条例》、《北京市奥林匹克知识产权保护规定》，组织开展了一系列专项检查行动，查处了一批侵权行为，收缴了一批侵权产品，引起了较大社会反响。

2002年，市工商局共办理涉及奥林匹克标志的案件99起，罚款31万元，消除侵权标志27万余件。同时，在集中1个月的保护奥运标志专项整治中，整改大型广告牌609块，对6.7万辆出租车上发布的迎奥运标志的广告做出限期清除的处理，查扣带有侵权标识的商品及包装物13万余件。

2003年，市工商局受理侵犯奥林匹克标志案件45起，罚款53万元。在奥运会会徽“京印”发布的第二天即组织查处了假冒“京印”的文化衫，及时扼制了假冒势头。

2003年，北京海关结合北京关区知识产权的保护状况，制作出《北京海关常见知识产权保护目录》，在关区风险平台的配合下，加强对侵犯知识产权货物的布控查验力度,并把对奥运标志等相关品牌保护作为知识产权保护工作的重点。

2003年，市文化局对涉及奥林匹克知识产权内容的演出活动进行严格审查，同时在演出现场对演出内容进行监督，保证了我市演出市场没有侵犯奥林匹克知识产权的事件发生。

结 束 语

2004年北京的知识产权工作，将在市委、市政府的有力领导下，继续按照WTO以及国际规则的要求，以落实《北京知识产权发展和保护纲要》为中心，继续为国内外企业创造更加优化的环境，力争将北京建设成为创新活力强劲，知识产权基础坚实、资源丰富、保护有力、流转顺畅的全国首善之区。

2002-2003 Intellectual Property Right Protection in Beijing

Introduction

Intellectual property work in Beijing showed a healthy upward trend of development in the years of 2002 and 2003. The Beijing Municipal People’s Government conducted extensive IP public education campaigns, intensified IP administration and protection, constantly promoted the building of IP enforcement system and exercised tremendous efforts to regulate and standardize market economy order. Consequently, the public awareness of IP protection as well as the amounts of patent and trademark applications grew rapidly, playing crucial parts in increasing Beijing’s core competitiveness, further expanding openness to the outside world and promoting the developments of science, technology and economy and all-around advancement of the society. With a view to optimize the environment for development in the capital and continuously improve the intellectual property work, it is required to establish a regular publication system for the White Book on Intellectual Property Right Protection in Beijing (hereinafter referred as the White Book), for better transparency of IP enforcement and supervision from the public.

Subject to the requirements of No.68 Notice of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the specific condition of Beijing, Beijing Intellectual Property Office organized the drafting of the White Book. In the course of the drafting, those white books on IPR protection published by other provinces were referenced and consultations with several other IP-related institutions were held.

The White Book offers a panoramic view of the work of the competent Beijing IP authorities in 2002-2003 biennium, in particular, reflected the contributions made by these authorities on fighting IP violations, protecting the legitimate interests of IP right holders and maintaining market economy order.

I.Beijing Municipal People’s Government Attaches Great Attention to IPR Protection

Beijing Municipal People’s Government has always been attaching great attention to IPR protection, prioritizing it as an important task to enhance the city’s all-around competitiveness and to improve its environment for investment. In accordance with the Chinese IP legal system, the Municipal Government respected and protected the legitimate interests of the IP right holders including foreign nationals.

In 2001, in an effort to strengthen IP protection in an all-around fashion, the Municipal Government issued the Opinion on Strengthening IP Work (Document No: Jing Zheng Fa [2001] 47). In April 2003, in its documents, the Opinion on Further Optimizing Environment for Development and the Implementing Plan for Further Optimizing Environment for Development, the Municipal Government explicitly indicated: intensifying IP protection, firmly cracking down on all kinds of IP violations, handling IP disputes in a timely manner, effectively restraining the phenomena of counterfeiting and piracy, and promoting R & D of science and technology and technological innovations. Strengthening IP protection, safeguarding the legitimate interests of the IP right holders and creating an open, fair and orderly market environment were all treated as important elements for further optimizing the capital’s environment for development. On several occasions, the city’s Party Secretary Mr. Liu Qi and Mayor Mr. Wang Qishan delivered important instructions, concerning the IP issues such as foreign-related IP case, regulation and standardization of market economy order and protection of IPRs owned by foreign-funded companies. The city’s People’ s Congress and Political Consultative Conference actively promoted the acceleration of IP legal construction and IP administration by the vehicles of field studies, proposal-raising, bill-submitting and supervision. In 2000, the number of member units of the Beijing Intellectual Property Task Force grew from 14 municipal government departments to 25. The establishment of a unified and effective IP coordination mechanism is playing an increasingly crucial role in integrating the strengths of different departments with distinct functions such as IP administration and law enforcement, intensifying the raid of IP violations, maintaining market economy order, promoting cooperation and communication with overseas IP organizations and institutes.

In order to elevate the public’s IP legal awareness and create a social environment of respecting and protecting IP, the IP-relevant municipal departments, by taking advantage of the celebration of the April 26 World Intellectual Property Day, conducted large-scale series of publicity campaigns: using the media of radio, television, newspaper, journal and Internet to publicize IP laws and regulations from multiple angles; holding large publicity and consultation activity; hold the exhibition of achievements of copyright-related trade in Beijing area; hold the exhibition of real-life items of pirated software; hold training courses, lectures and presentations. These departments also publicized IP knowledge to the citizens by conducting joint enforcement operations and other activities, in an effort to increase the city public’s awareness and capacity in protecting their IP interests and taking advantage of the WTO rules to get involved in international competition.

In October 2002, Beijing Intellectual Property Office (BJIPO), the Chinese Chapter of the International Intellectual Property Protection Association (AIPPI), Beijing Intellectual Property Society and Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Patent and Trademark Agency jointly held the 2002 Beijing International Intellectual Property Symposium. Beijing Vice Mayor Ms. Lin Wenyi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Mr. Jürgen Schmid-Dwertmann, Deputy Commissioner Mr. Tian Lipu of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and Deputy Commissioner Mr. Shen Rengan of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) attended the opening ceremony.

In April 2003, responsive to the issues such as the establishment of the awareness of good faith and discipline and a rapid response mechanism after occurrence of infringement, which were proposed by some transnational corporations during the Seventh Discussion between Municipal Leaders and Representatives from Transnational Corporations, and also with a view to implement an instruction from Vice Mayor Mr. Fan Boyuan, who was responsible for the municipality’s IP affairs, BJIPO Director General Ms. Liu Dongwei headed a team to visit the General Electric Corporation, listening to the corporation’s positions on IPR protection. As a consequence of this meeting and after extensive survey, the BJIPO, jointly with the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce (BAIC), Beijing Copyright Administration (BCA) and Beijing Customs, formulated the Measures on Further Optimizing Capital’s IPR Protection Environment.

In 2003, in an effort to implement the deployment by the State Leading Group on Regulating and Standardizing Market Economy Order, and follow the spirits of the Notice on Protecting IPR and Conducting Special Operations to Raid Counterfeiting Activities, a notice issued by the Municipal Leading Group on Regulating and Standardizing Market Economy Order, the BJIPO, BAIC, BCA and Beijing Police Department (BPD) jointly conducted operations to raid counterfeiting activities within the city’s jurisdiction, mainly hitting illegal activities such as counterfeiting and faking patents, counterfeiting registered trademarks, sale of merchandise labeled with counterfeiting well-know trademarks, production and sale of pirated books, phonograms, computer software, street hawking of pirated CDs and illicitly printing of best-selling books.

On 27 October 2003, the Zhongguancun National Intellectual Property System Model Park was officially established by the SIPO and Beijing Municipal Government. Efforts will be made to further establish an effective IP administration system and an operation mechanism to facilitate the formation of a reasonable IP protection environment in the Park. Presently, six organizations, Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Department, SIPO’S Beijing Patent Receiving Office, IPR Roving Tribunal, BAIC’s Trademark Representative Office to the Park, BCA’s Software Copyright Registration Center and Copyright Service Center reside in Zhongguancun and have began their services in IP administration and highlighted protection.

On 31 October 2003, Beijing High People’s Court held a press conference on the online launch of the IPR cases’ judgment papers of the Beijing court system. Vice President Mr. Zhu Jiang made relevant introductions. All IPR cases judgment papers of the entire Beijing court system have been put online since 1 November 2003.

From 26 to 28 November 2003, commissioned by the NCAC, the BCA organized the Roving Seminars on Right of Communication to the Public of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Experts from Switzerland, Hungary, the United States, Japan and WIPO spoke at the seminars and discussed on the relevant issues with Internet businessmen, judges, scholars and copyright administrators from Beijing.

II. Significant Achievements in IP Administrative Enforcement

I) Patent Protection

From 2002 to 2003, BJIPO received 58 patent disputes involving all kinds of patents, 9 related to invention, 28 related to utility model and 21 related to industrial design, 6 related to foreign entities and 15 related to counterfeiting and faking patents. BJIPO also focused on inspecting patented goods in large and medium sized department stores, supermarkets and wholesale markets for small goods while completing the reinforcement and regulation of the 50 No Faking Patents Stores in cooperation with the Municipal Department of Commerce, keeping the sources of the goods with faking patents under check. According to the sample statistics on the goods affixed with patent labels circulated in the Beijing area, the percentage of goods with faking patents in the entire circulation dropped from 25% in 1997 to 5.29% in 2002.

The BJIPO intensified IP protection at conferences and exhibitions. On 17 October 2002, BJIPO received the request for mediation from the Germany-Based Barmag AG on the infringement of its invention patent rights from three companies from Zhengzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou whose textile machineries exhibited during the China Textile Machinery Exhibition, and adopted measures immediately to stop the conducts of IP infringement in a timing and effective manner.

In April 2003, following the deployment of the SIPO, the BJIPO established the Patent Agents Disciplinary Committee to stiffen supervision of any illegal conduct while offering agency service and standardization of the conducts and service of agencies. By the end of 2003, the number of patent agencies in the city had reached 123, 24 of which offered foreign-related services.

II) Trademark Protection

The BAIC intensified the enforcement of high-profile and major trademark counterfeiting and infringement cases. From 2002 to 2003, the entire BAIC system handled 2,285 cases involving trademark counterfeiting and trademark infringements, imposed fines of 9.04 million yuan, detained goods valued 80.78 million yuan, removed and destroyed 2.4 million (sets) infringing trademark labels and transferred 6 persons to the judicial authorities.

After the implementation of the new Trademark Law and its Implementing Regulations in 2002, BAIC organized several its sub-administrations to conduct large-scale enforcement activities, confiscating over 20,000 counterfeiting garments in Dahongmen Garment Trade City and removed store plates of 10 grill restaurants which infringed the trademark San Qian Li (Three Thousand Miles).

In April 2003, BAIC received a complaint from the UK-based Frederick Warne Co & Ltd, suing two publishers infringing its trademark proprietorship. Officers from The Trademark Sections of the Dongcheng and Xicheng Sub-administrations overcame the difficulties posed by the SARS outbreak and adopted timing measures, stopping the infringing conducts from worsening and protecting the legitimate interests of foreign trademark right holders. The company sent an honorary flag and a gratitude letter, highly rating the IPR protection by the Municipal Government.

III) Copyright Protection

From 2002 to 2003, BCA handled 41 cases of administrative enforcement, imposed fines of 1.123 million yuan, settled 66 copyright disputes, and saw through 2.25 million yuan damages to copyright holders with a case resolution rate of over 90%. In 2003, BCA confiscated 422,529 copies of phonograms, and over 600,000 copies of infringing software. In addition, BCA highlighted on the implementation of the Notice on Accelerating the Use of Licensed Software in the Engineering, Inspecting and Designing Industries during the Process of Regulating and Standardizing Market Economy Order, organizing inspection of several closely-watched companies. The BCA also listed regulation of pre-installation of infringing software, raid of illegally reproducing and using software, and promotion of the use of licensed software as its priorities and stuck tightly with this plan.

In 2003, the BCA, in cooperation with the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, BPD and BAIC formulated the Opinions on Intensifying Computer Software and from September to December, as part of the 2003 special operations to raid software piracy in an immense manner, BCA organized a 100-day operation ─ Operation Maple Leaf. Consequently, the copyright order in the Beijing software market improved significantly with the reinforcement of regulating achievements in pre-installed software by computer manufacturing companies, correction of the conducts of illicitly reproducing software by end users, promotion of the use of licensed software, in-depth supervision of distribution of works on the Internet.

In September 2003, the Municipal Government granted powers to the Culture Commission of the districts and counties in the aspects of administration and administrative enforcement. An important stride for the reform of the copyright administration mechanism had been taken.

III. Intensification of Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property

From 2002 to 2003, the IP Tribunals under the Courts of Law at all levels within the city’s jurisdiction received 1,999 IP cases of the first instance and resolved 1,975 cases of the first instance. Among the first instance IP cases received, 1,012 cases were related to copyright, accounting for 50%; 473 to patent, 24%; 212 to technological contract, 11%; 167 to unfair competition, 8%; 139 to trademark, 7%.

On 18 December 2002, the Beijing High People’s Court resolved the case, INTETLGO AG (Note: a Swiss company) suing Tianjin Kegao Toy Co for copyright infringement, holding the plaintiff’s Lego toy blocks possessing certain level of originality and should be deemed as applied art works. The same types of toys made by the defendant violated the copyright of the plaintiff. Pursuant to the Copyright Law and the Regulation on Implementing International Copyright Treaties, the defendant was ordered to stop infringement, apologize in public and pay 50,000 yuan monetary damages to the plaintiff.

Beijing Courts not only pledged to ensure the impartiality of its judgments, but also attached ultimate attention to the social effects of the cases held. In October 2003, after a successful mediation by the High Court, a high-profile case, France-based Lacoste Corporation suing Crocodile T-shirt Ltd of Hong Kong for trademark infringement, ended up on a note of satisfaction. Both parties voluntarily reached a settlement agreement on the use of the trademark E Yu (Crocodile) while highly rated the level of judicial protection of intellectual property in Beijing.

IV. Customs Strengthens Border Measures for Intellectual Property Protection

In 2002, Beijing Customs investigated and handled 2 infringement cases, both of which were related to trademark infringement, involving a value of 80,000 yuan.

In 2003, Beijing Customs strictly carried out the Implementing Rules for IP Protection at Beijing Customs, and Communication and Coordination Measures between the Legal Affairs Division of the Beijing Customs and Customs on Duty for the Handling of IP Infringement Cases, improved the IP contact point mechanism of the Beijing Customs and strengthened the publicity of IP, enabling more enterprises to have a newer and deeper understanding of the administrative enforcement of the customs. In 2003, Beijing Customs investigated and handled 9 infringement cases, which were related to copyright and trademark infringement, involving a value of 80,000 USD.

V. Intensification of Intellectual Property Protection in Phonogram Market

In recent two years, by stiffening the administration of licenses for movie projection and the timing of movies’ showing in theaters, the Beijing Culture Department effectively reduced the phenomenon of illegal reproduction of pirated movie copies as well as reinforcing the inspection of the use of phonograms in entertainment markets and video-playing places.

VI. Significant Achievements in Intellectual Property Protection by the Police Departments (Public Security Authorities)

In 2002, the entire Municipal Police system investigated and handled 2,600 cases of printing, selling and distributing illegal publications, confiscated 4.22 million copies of illegal publications and arrested 3,826 suspects. The Beijing Police Department conducted four special operations by phases and with different focuses, dispatching over 20,000 officer times.

In 2003, the entire Municipal Police system investigated and handled 1,655 cases related to print and sale of pornographic and pirated illegal publications, confiscating 4.75 million pirated books and magazines, phonograms, and arresting 2,252 suspects. In the entire year, the Police cracked down on 87 wholesale dens, which sold at least 10,000 copies of pornographic and pirated phonograms, and confiscated over 3.7 million copies of illegal publications of all kinds.

VII. New Developments in Eliminating Illicit UL Labels

In 2002, Beijing Administration for Inspection and Quarantine at Entries and Exits investigated and found 378,600 pieces of goods with a value of 12 million yuan, affixed with faking UL labels and destroyed 2.886 million pieces of faking UL paper labels.

In 2003, Beijing Administration for Inspection and Quarantine at Entries and Exits investigated and found 61,600 pieces of goods valuing 110,000 USD, affixing faking UL labels. The goods in question included cast-iron pipes for fire-fighting purpose, rechargeable batteries, night-lights and electric motors.

VIII. Full-Scale Olympics-related Intellectual Property Protection

Every interested municipal authority paid great attention to the protection of Olympics-related IPRs by strictly enforcing the Regulation on the Protection of the Olympic Symbols and Beijing Regulation on the Intellectual Property Protection of Olympics-related IPRs, organizing a series of special inspections, finding and handling numerous infringing activities and confiscating a number of infringing products. The actions drew relatively significant public responses.

In 2002, BAIC received 99 cases related to the Olympic symbols, imposed fines of over 310,000 yuan and removed 27 infringing labels. In the meantime, during the one-month special operation for the protection of Olympic symbols, 609 large-sized advertisement billboards were cleared, advertisement carrying the mark, Embrace the Olympics on 67,000 taxis were ordered to remove within a time limit, 130,000 pieces of merchandises and packages with infringing symbols were detained.

In 2003, BAIC received 45 cases related to the infringement of the Olympic symbols and imposed fines of 530,000 yuan. On the second day of the issuance of the Olympiad emblem, Jing Yin (Beijing Seal), the Administration organized a check of T-shirts with counterfeiting Jing Yin, smothering the emergence of counterfeiting in time.

In 2003, considering the IP protection status in Beijing custom areas, Beijing Customs formulated the Frequently-Seen IPRs Protection List of Beijing Customs, assisted by the risk platform of the custom areas, strengthened inspection and check of goods dubious of infringing IPRs and prioritized the protection of the Olympic symbols and relevant brands as a key task for IPR protection.

In 2003, the Beijing Culture Department strictly scrutinized when a performance involved the use of the Olympics-related IPRs and sent officers to inspect the contents of performances on site, ensuring no incidents involving infringement of the Olympics-related IPRs in the city’s performance market.

Conclusion

In 2004, in an effort to provide a more optimized environment for both domestic and transnational companies, following the requirements of WTO and other international rules, with the implementation of the Outline on Developing and Protecting IP in Beijing as the pivotal task, the Municipal Government will endeavor to build Beijing into a nation-leading area with strong creative vitality, firm IP basis, rich resources, effective protection and smooth circulation of goods.