The intellectual property, industry and commerce, quality supervision and other functional departments in Guangzhou jointly launched a special action for the protection of intellectual property rights in the auto parts industry.
Intellectual Property News Correspondent Huang Yuxia
In order to further optimize the intellectual property market environment in Guangzhou and ensure the healthy development of the pillar industries, in September this year, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Office Conference Office and the City Regulation and Regulation Office organized and implemented the Guangzhou Automobile in accordance with the instructions of Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Lin Shusen and Deputy Mayor Wang Xiaoling. Parts industry intellectual property protection special action. The intellectual property, industry and commerce, quality supervision, and other functional departments of Guangzhou Municipality jointly acted to concentrate their strengths and carry out special rectification actions focusing on patents, trademarks, and quality standards in two phases. At present, special actions have achieved phased results.
The results of the rectification campaign
The first phase (September-October) quickly took effect and achieved substantial results. In September, the Guangzhou Municipal Intellectual Property Office took the lead in organizing a joint operation to spotty 41 categories of 505 products that were pretending to be Guangben auto parts, 6 types of 32 pseudo-patented products and 8 categories of 42 non-Chinese names, factory site car audio . At the same time, the Municipal Quality Supervision Department has investigated and handled 39 cases of auto parts counterfeiting since July. It has dismantled 38 false-use dens, seized more than 194,000 pieces of counterfeit auto parts, and counterfeited brand labels and logos of more than 3 million. , the value of 9.37 million yuan. Among them, in mid-October, the city quality supervision and industry and commerce departments started from the production, warehousing and sales links based on relevant clues, and stopped one of the large-scale gangs that manufactured and sold counterfeit automobile shock absorbers in one fell swoop, and seized various kinds of counterfeit famous brand automobiles. More than 4000 devices.
The second phase (November-December) strengthens education and prevents problems. The focus of this action is to correct the illegal behavior of auto parts operators posing as patents by passing inspections, educating and guiding them to raise awareness of intellectual property rights, and then establish a long-term mechanism for the healthy development of the industry. On November 24th, Wu Yuejing, director of the Municipal Intellectual Property Office, personally directed and led the deputy director Zeng Liuquan to conduct large-scale joint inspections of patented goods and law enforcement campaigns on 21 large-scale auto parts specialized markets in the city for two consecutive days. A total of 87 law enforcement officers were deployed in the operation. A total of 2,566 stores were inspected, over 699,000 products were inspected, 301 patented products were involved, and more than 14,000 publicity materials were distributed in 8 categories. The city's industry and commerce department held an emergency meeting for professional markets on November 24th to arrange the market rectification work. The focus was on unauthorized sale of products, fake and shoddy products, unauthorised advertising signs, and products without agency agreements, and required auto parts and components. Professional market operations managers check implementation. At present, this work is progressing well.
Strengthen the management and purification market
It is understood that with the completion of the three major international automobile manufacturing companies of Honda, Nissan and Toyota in Guangzhou, the development of the automobile industry cluster has basically taken shape, which has led to the development of the auto parts industry. Guangzhou has become an important distribution center for auto parts. . Guangzhou has more than 200 main and concurrently-produced auto parts and components companies. The number of specialized auto parts markets and professional streets has reached 27, and the number of auto parts sales shops exceeds 10,000. The annual turnover is nearly 10 billion yuan.
At present, the intellectual property status of the domestic auto parts industry is worrying. There are both the phenomenon of malicious manufacturing and sales of fake and shoddy products, and the threat of the “patent war†of large multinational corporations. During the operation, most of the auto parts professional market operators actively cooperated with inspections. In the stores and professional markets that run domestic auto parts, there are relatively many products with patent marks. These shop operators have a certain understanding of patents. Some patented manufacturers' sales departments have praised the joint inspection campaign. However, there are also many auto parts store operators who know little about intellectual property knowledge and do not know what patents are, particularly in the shops and specialized markets that handle imported auto parts. Some operators even distribute to law enforcement officials. Publicity materials are turned a deaf ear.
Actively respond to foreign lawsuits
According to the survey, there are 8,698 auto-related invention patents applied in China, more than half of which are foreign invention patents applied by large auto companies in China, including 2,182 in Japan, 761 in the United States, 409 in South Korea, and 395 in Germany. At present, foreign large-scale automobile companies have begun to gradually collect evidence of domestic companies infringing their patent rights, and they have not shown any signs of success. They are ready to make trouble when the time is ripe.
How to face the patent infringement lawsuits of its competitors and better strengthen the intellectual property protection of the auto parts industry. The person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Intellectual Property Office pointed out that the first is to establish a “fighting, defense, tree, and teaching†concurrent mechanism to form a pattern of law enforcement agencies taking the lead, market manager assistance, and store operator response; at the same time, strengthen publicity and education, and strengthen training. Cooperation, the implementation of "genuine and legitimate goods," and gradually establish market access and other long-term supervision and prevention mechanisms, so that intellectual property protection work more effective and more active. The second is to establish a joint law enforcement mechanism that links up and down, strengthen joint law enforcement with functional departments at the district and county levels, and increase supervision density and establish a long-term mechanism.
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