The People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population. It is a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system and has jurisdiction over twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two capitalist Special Administrative Regions. The capital of the PRC is Beijing.
China is one of the world's fastest growing economies in terms of nominal GDP growth, and is the fastest-growing major economy. It has the world's third largest GDP in nominal terms or second largest in purchasing power, and consumes as much as a third of the world's steel and over half of its concrete. The PRC is also the world's second largest exporter and the third largest importer.
General Information
Government Type:
Socialist republic, Single party communist state
Monetary Unit:
Yuan (CNY)
International Arrangements
WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Literary and Artistic Works),
PCT (Patents)
Madrid Agreement (International Registration of Marks)
Madrid Protocol
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Locarno Agreement (International Classification for Industrial Designs
Strasbourg Agreement (International Patent Classification),
Geneva Convention (Unauthorized Duplication of Phonograms)
Budapest Treaty (Deposit of Micro-organisms)
WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty)
WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty)
Patents
Types of Patents:
-Patents of Invention
-Patents PCT
Filing Requirements:
- Power of Attorney (in English with the Chinese translation)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Specification, claims and abstract in English
- Drawings
- Assignment of priority rights
- Priority document with English translation
Granting:
-The term of a patent is twenty years from the filing date in China.
-Renewal fees fall due annually from the first anniversary of the filing date
Renewals
Every year
Trademarks
Filing Requirements:
- Power of Attorney (in English)
- 2 prints of the trademark
- The full particulars of the applicant
- The list of the goods and/or services to be covered by the trademark and classes
- Priority document with verified English translation
Granting:
- The protection is for ten years, and starts from the date of application
Renewals:
- Every ten years
Designs and Models
Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney (in English)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Graphic representation or a sample of the model
- Description of the novelty for the industrial model or the industrial design
- Assignment of priority rights
- Priority document with verified English translation
Granting:
The term of protection is ten years from the filing date in China.
Renewals:
Every year
Utility Models
Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney (in English with the Chinese translation)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Specification, claims and abstract in English
- Drawings
- Assignment document
- Priority document (certified copy of basic application)
Granting
The term of protection is ten years from the filing date in China.
Renewals
Every year
Copyrights
Domain Names
Requirements:
-Currently only companies resident in China can be the owners of .cn domains.
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