The Court's judgment fully confirmed the views of the PRB with regards to the inventiveness evaluation criteria and the interpretation on protection scope of patent claims. It is of vital importance to the judgment of similar case in the future.

IPR legislation has made positive progress in China: the drafts to amendment of Patent Law has been submitted to the Standing Committee of China National People's Congress (全国人大常委会); revised drafts to amendment of Trademark Law has taken shape; State-owned Copyright Management Method has been formulated; investigation and research work for the 2nd amendment of the Copyright Law has been promulgated; the draft of the Copyright Protection Method for Folk Literature and Arts has also been started.

With regard to IP enforcement, progresses can be found in cracking down piracy, standardizing market order, effective protection of Olympic IPR and heavy attack of all kinds of acts infringing IPR laws. Meanwhile, IPR judicial work is further enforced, and mechanism of IP protection is further improved.

BRAUNHG is a famous German manufacturer specializing in small electrical appliances such as shavers and possessing many self-innovated technologies, with annual sales amounts over 20 billion yuan.

In May, BRAUN found in Chinese market fake “BRAUN” electric shavers produced by a Wenzhou electrical appliance company. They accordingly lodged two civil lawsuits against this company to Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court. For the trademark dispute case, the court ruled that the Wenzhou company should stop their infringement immediately and pay damages to BRAUN. In the patent dispute case, under the Court’s intermediation, the two parties finally reached an agreement. Later, with the further efforts of the judge, the Wenzhou company performed their duties in the trademark case as well.

Established in 2001, Suntech Power is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of innovative solar energy solutions which provides a wide variety of products from solar batteries to solar street lights. In December 2005, Suntech Power was successfully listed on New York Stock Exchange. On March 17, 2004, Suntech registered the trademark of “尚德(Suntech in Chinese)” in Class 11, which has enjoyed high reputation through long-term and extensive use and promotion.

In March 2007, Suntech Power became aware that Jiaxing Suntech produced and sold solar energy streetlights which fall in the same Class with Suntech Power’s products and it further registered “尚德(Suntech in Chinese)” as its corporate name.

In December 2007, Suntech Power authorized Unitalen to institute a lawsuit of trademark infringement and unfair competition before Changsha City Tianxin District People’s Court. Tianxin District court ruled that Jiaxing Suntech’s activities had infringed Suntech Power’s trademark right and had constituted unfair competition. The court ordered Jiaxing Suntech to pay Suntech Power RMB 300,000 in damages. Jiaxing Suntech appealed against the first-instance decision before Changsha Municipal Intermediate People’s Court. Through the lawyer’s efforts, the appellate court sustained the first-instance decision. Thus, Suntech Power finally won a favorable result for its trademark right protection.

An attendance of 25 companies with a total of 50 persons participated this training, most of whom are patent engineers. The attendees made in-depth discussion on how to evaluate the quality of the patent filing document and how to exploit potential patent in R&D of IC industry. Dr. Su and Mr. Li helped the attendees to find out suitable solutions to their own patent matters by giving lectures and organizing group discussion.

This training activity got favorable reviews from the attendees. According to the attendees, the lectures combined theory with patent practice and the honored guests gave very helpful answers to every question raised.