In 2010, the criminal case of counterfeiting registered trademark committed by the defendant Liu Zhaolong was tried in public hearing in Beijing Daxing District People’s Court. During the period from March to September, 2009, without the approval of the registered trademark owner Pernod Ricard Group, the defendant Liu Zhaolong purchased raw wine, wine bottle, wine lid, package box, lid sealing machine and etc., produced counterfeits of imported wines such as Chivas, Ballantine, Martell, Hennessy, Royal Salute, etc. in his temporary residence at Haizijiao Village, Huangcun Town, Daxing District, Beijing, and sold them to other places through logistic consignment. The amount involved reached RMB 201507. In September of the same year, the public security bureau seized Liu Zhaolong in the course of inspection. After being tried in Beijing Daxing District People’s Court, the defendant Liu Zhaolong was judged to commit the crime of counterfeiting registered trademark, sentenced to imprisonment for four years, and fined with RMB 150 thousand.

The British embassy in China expressed their deep impression on the timely trial and fair judgment made by Beijing Daxing District People’s Court, and showed gratitude for the efficiency of the court.

The case has been included as one of the top ten China IP judicial cases in 2010.

According to the white paper, the Survey about Business Environment among 434 member enterprises shows that the operation conditions of American enterprises in China is encouraging. 85% interviewed enterprises enjoyed increased income in 2010, 78% realized profit-making or profit-making to a great extent, 63% made profits higher than that in 2009, 41% had higher profit ratio in China than global profit ratio, 83% planned to increase investment in China in 2011. American enterprises have full confidence in China’s market.

The data provided by He Hua show that last year, the number of patent applications in China exceeded 1 million and reached 1.22 million. Among them, the number of applications for patent for invention patents from domestic applicants reached over 290 thousand, increased by over 127% compared to the year before the last. In the first 4 months this year, the increasing rate of the number of patent applications in China reached around 148%. He Hua said that it can be seen from these data that the innovative energy in China has been stimulated to a great extent, and the intellectual property strategy has played the effective supporting role in changing the economic development mode.

On June 5, 2008, the Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy was printed and issued by the State Council. In the outline, it is pointed out that by 2020, China will be built into a country with relatively high level in creation, application, protection and management of intellectual property. The objectives for the coming five years proposed in the outline are as follow. The level of self-developed intellectual property will be greatly improved; the effect of applying intellectual property will be obviously strengthened; the condition of intellectual property protection will be obviously improved; the consciousness about intellectual property of the whole society, especially the market subjects will be generally improved.

After the seminar was successfully held in Hilton Shanghai Hotel on May 26, the meeting in Guangzhou started in Shangri-la Hotel on May 27.

With the largest scale and the highest professional level in South China, this international seminar received over 200 senior executives from nearly 150 enterprises.