The 13th Meeting of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Expert Group on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights was held in Guangzhou today.
The participants agreed to continue deepening and promoting co-operation.
The group’s co-operation projects for 2014-15 include reinforcing work on cross-boundary protection of intellectual property and organising publicity activities. They will also promote guidance service and co-operation on intellectual property trading and services in both places.
The two sides shared their latest developments in intellectual property co-operation and reviewed the projects completed in the past year.
Law enforcement authorities in both places continued to work closely during the past year to combat the smuggling of infringing goods across the boundary under the co-ordination mechanism for handling intellectual property-related cases.
Director of Intellectual Property Ada Leung said fostering intellectual property trading in Guangdong and Hong Kong is the group’s emphasis.
“Over the past year a number of co-operation items were themed intellectual property trading. They effectively strengthened the exchange and co-operation on intellectual property trading of the enterprises in the two places,” she said.
