The third meeting under the exchange mechanism is scheduled to be held in Japan next year.

As one of the largest LED manufacturers, in early August, 2007, Osram became aware of infringing DOT-it LED sold online by Hongfei. Thereafter, Osram lodged a lawsuit before Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court, requesting the defendant to stop infringement and pay 200,000 yuan in compensation. After receiving the Osram’s application of pre-litigation evidence preservation, the court seized a large number of infringing products in the defendant's domicile.

Up to now, Tianjin Customs has nabbed totally 50,000 fake vests, sports clothes, caps, bags, involving nine well-known brands like Adidas, Nike, D&G, Gucci, etc.

“As a coastal customs, we will make use of our advantages and strengthen our propaganda and education of IP protection to the public, so as to crack down more infringement cases in China”, said Tianjin Customs.

Nestlé Company filed an application for international registration of its trademark of a shield device on December 11, 2001, designating China for territorial extension. The registration is approved by China Trademark Office (CTMO) and will expire on December 11, 2011. Goods approved for the extended protection includes food for babies in Class 5. Royal Numico Dumex used combined golden shield marks containing shield device on the package of its Dumex infant formula milk powder, on its website and in advertising. In addition, Xizhimen branch of Itoyokado Mall sold the above infringing product.

In September 2007, Nestlé Company sued Royal Numico Dumex for trademark infringement and unfair competition requesting Royal Numico Dumex and Xizhimen branch of Itoyokado Mall to stop infringement and compensate the damages within the statutory range of 500,000 yuan.

Filing totally 5456 PCT applications in the past year, China rose to No.7 and was leading among the top 15 countries for the increase of 38.1% year-on-year, which shows China’s rapid improvement of innovation abilities and awareness of IP protection.

As the No. 4 and No. 53 PCT applicants among the global enterprises respectively, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation together with other High-tech enterprises have undoubtedly made a great contribution to China’s PCT application’s increase. Currently, more and more Chinese enterprises are turning their eyes to the overseas market, paying more attention to the international IP protection, investing a huge sum of money in the research and development fields, and strengthening the cooperation with foreign advanced companies, so as to benefit from their patents.

The plaintiff, a foreign company set up in Germany, obtained the exclusive right of the trademark “BIOFRESH” in China. The Court found that the words “Bio Fresh” are used on the panel of fresh room on the inner part of Siemens’ refrigerators and the labels indicating name, type, date of products sticked on the refrigerators’ packages, where however the “SIEMENS” trademark is more extraordinarily marked. Besides this, “SIEMENS” trademark is used on the distinctive places of Siemens’ refrigerators and their packaging boxes.

The Court holds that the words “Bio Fresh” on Siemens’ refrigerators is intended to describe the character and function of the products and will not lead to confusion on refrigerators or the manufacturers of such refrigerators. Therefore, it falls into the circumstances of fair use and does not constitute infringement to the plaintiff’s trademark right.