Ministry of Commerce, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, National Copyright Administration and State Intellectual Property Office, Measures for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights for Exhibitions

Promulgated: January 10 2006
Effective: March 1 2006
Applicability: These Measures apply to the protection of the relevant patents, trademarks and copyrights in such activities as exhibitions, sales exhibitions, expositions, trade fairs and shows held in the PRC for all types of economic and technological trade (Article 2).

Main contents: For exhibitions held for a period of three days or more that have established an intellectual property complaint unit, the intellectual property administrative department at the place where the exhibition is held shall send staff to station and handle infringement cases in accordance with the law (Article 6). During the exhibition period, the local intellectual property bureau may accept complaints involving suspicion of infringement of patent rights, trademark rights and copyrights referred by the exhibition complaint unit, and handle the same in accordance with relevant provisions (Articles 16, 19 & 22).
Related legislation: PRC Foreign Trade Law (Revised), Apr 6 2004, CLP 2004 No.4 p.34; PRC Patent Law (3rd Revision) ,Dec 27 2008, CLP 2009 No.1 p.60; PRC Trademark Law (2nd Revision), Oct 27 2001, CLP 2001 No.10 p.75 and PRC Copyright Law (2nd Revision), Feb 26 2010, CLP 2010 No.2 online.