The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Guangdong Committee (CCPIT Guangdong) and Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Center (GIPPC) jointly established a service platform for overseas intellectual property protection on July 7. The platform aims to provide services for Guangdong enterprises involved in IPRs disputes overseas.

"CCPIT Guangdong maintains close connection with enterprises which are involved in overseas business while GIPPC provides professional legal services." said Fang Lixu, President of the CCPIT Guangdong, "We should join hands to help enterprises on assessing and avoiding potential risks overseas, and help to improve their ability to handle intellectual property disputes."

Ma Xianmin, Head of GIPPC, unveiled that there have been about 50 to 100 intellectual property cases related to the overseas business of Guangdong enterprises every quarter in recent years. "Guangdong enterprises have encountered more and more intellectual property disputes overseas. Its urgent to assist enterprises with the challenges they faced in terms of intellectual property rights," said Ma.

CCPIT Guangdong and GIPPC plan to jointly establish the first batch of intellectual property protection offices in Russia, Germany and the US in 2022, with the help of the existing Guangdong economic and trade offices as well as the Guangdong chambers of commerce overseas. These offices are responsible for providing latest legal information and legal advises of their host countries to Guangdong enterprises.

In addition, the offices will organize training on intellectual property based on Guangdong enterprises needs. A hotline will be launched for consultation as well.