The 14th Meeting of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Expert Group on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights was held in Hong Kong today.
Participants agreed to continue deepening and promoting co-operation.
The group's co-operation projects for 2015-16 include reinforcing work on cross-boundary protection of intellectual property, and organising publicity activities. They will also promote guidance service in intellectual property, and co-operation on intellectual property trading and services.
The two sides reviewed the co-operative projects completed in the past year, and noted law enforcement agencies in both places worked closely to combat the smuggling of contraband 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 major development target in the next phase.
"We believe promoting the further development of intellectual property trading, including the effective use of intellectual property, will help drive economic development in the two places."
