China and Italy United in IPR Protection
Source: chinatextile Date: 2009-11-24
On Sept.15, 2006, the Memorandum of Understanding between SMI and CNTAC on the protection of intellectual property was signed markedly.
Three years later, during the 15th China International Trade Fair for Apparel Fabrics and Accessories, the Seminar on the Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese and Italian Textile & Fashion Industry, organized by China National Textile and Apparel Council and Sistema Moda Italia, was successfully held on October 21 in Shanghai. Governmental industrial representatives, such as Du Yuzhou, President of China National Textile and Apparel Council, Wu Tongdiao, Deputy Director General of Trade Development Bureau of Ministry of Commerce, and He Yuefeng, Vice Director of Protection and Coordination Department, State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC, were invited to attend this seminar and exchange their views on IPR protection and cooperation between China and Italy.
Strengthening IPR protection and cooperation is a global topic, so this seminar could be beneficial in enhancing communication and cooperation, and significantly promote trade between the Chinese and Italian textile and fashion industry.
During this seminar, Mr.Du Yuzhou presented a theme speech on Promote Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Speed Up Industrial Upgrading, which gave a detailed introduction on the relationship between IPR and the textile industrial development in China, and provided suggestions for IPR cooperation between Chinese and Italian enterprises.
According to Mr. Du, for a better development, the Chinese textile industry should pay more attention to strengthening industrial self-discipline, which consists of three aspects: social compliance management system, intellectual property rights protection, and market order. Recently, the China National Textile and Apparel Council has already carried out and promoted the CSC9000T (China Social Compliance 9000 for Textile & Apparel Industry) among domestic textile and apparel enterprises, which aims at leading the enterprises to obey laws and regulation, implement labor contract, save energy, environment protection, and so on, to assure benefits for the consumer and also to promote a harmonious social and scientific development.
Furthermore, as Mr.Du stressed, CCPIT TEX would set up the IPR Office especially, integrated with the local IPR Law Enforcement Authority, to deal with the IPR disputes during its professional exhibition each time. Meanwhile, the CCPIT TEX would sign the IPR Protection Commitment with the exhibitors, in order to improve the IPR protection during the exhibition.
According to Wu Tongdiao, the Chinese government always pays great attention to the IPR protection, raising it as a national development strategy. He also stressed that to strengthen the communication of IPR between China and Italy would contribute meaningfully to the development of commercial trade between the two countries and also to challenge the terrible global financial crisis together for China and Italy.
Mr. Gianfranco Di Natale, Director General of SMI, shared his views on the IPR protection between the Chinese and Italian textile and fashion industry. He believed that those two countries should join together to enhance the communication and cooperation on IPR protection, especially to exchange information and offer mutual assistance on violations of IPR, to take measures against exhibitors exhibiting fake products, and so on, in order to protect the benefit of industries and enterprises as well as a better relationship development for both countries in the future.
Nearly 100 domestic fashion enterprises representatives attended this seminar. Through this seminar, the enterprises from Italy could know more about the IPR management and protection of textile and fashion industry in China, and also find the method to protect the Italian IPR in China; as for domestic enterprises, vice versa, which would bring more legal protection on IPR for both countries and further commercial cooperation in the future beneficially.
