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The application of intellectual property protection means depends on the type and the characteristics of a threat. Common intellectual property threats in China concern legal infringements such as patent, trademark, design or copyright infringements. Yet intellectual property rights infringements are only part of the IP threat environment in China. In addition to such legal-illicit threats, also legal-licit, that is to say uncertainties within the boundaries of the law and factual challenges are predominant in China. In China the impudence and creativity of infringements show that the extent of IP infringements and challenges remains a difficult task to counteract.
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The Agreement on TRIPS provides a definition for counterfeiting and piracy, in a way that: (a) counterfeit trademark goods shall mean any goods, including packaging, bearing without authorization a trademark which is identical to the trademark validly registered in respect of such goods, or which cannot be distinguished in its essential aspects from such a trademark, and which thereby infringes the rights of the owner of the trademark in question under the law of the country of importation; and (b) pirated copyright goods shall mean any goods which are copies made without the consent of the right holder or person duly authorized by the right holder in the country of production and which are made directly or indirectly from an article where the making of that copy would have constituted an infringement of a copyright or a related right under the law of the country of importation.
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Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China, Chap. 1, Art. 3 specifies the term ‘works’ as literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering technology and the like which are expressed in the following forms: (1) written works; (2) oral works; (3) musical, dramatic, quyi’, choreographic and acrobatic works; (4) works of fine art and architecture; (5) photographic works; (6) cinematographic works and works created by virtue of an analogous method of film production; (7) drawings of engineering designs, and product designs; maps, sketches and other graphic works and model works; (8) computer software and (9) other works as provided for in laws and administrative regulations.
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Patent Law of the PRC, Art. 11 defines the need for authorization by the right holder of a patent.
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For the authorization of the exploitation of trademarks, refer to Trademark Law of the PRC, Art. 52.
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Gassmann, O., Beckenbauer, A., Friesike, S. (2012). Dimensions of IP Protection in China. In: Profiting from Innovation in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30592-4_3
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