China sets tougher guidelines to protect patents, copyrights

China’s leers have issued new, tougher guidelines for protection of patents, copyrights and or intellectual property.

rules anunced late Sunday appear timed to help along with halting progress in tre talks with United States.

guidelines order beefed up laws for protecting such intellectual property rights, increased compensation for infringements and stricter enforcement of existing laws. y also lower threshold for criminal prosecution of IPR offences.

new blueprint makes protection of intellectual property one of criteria for evaluating local government officials’ performance, creating a greater incentive for compliance.

ft and forced transfers of techlogy and inequate protection of copyrights, patents and tremarks are perennial complaints of foreign companies operating in China and are among key issues in latest flareup in tre tensions.