On the afternoon of April 12, QBPC Chair Michael Ding, QBPC BPEC Chair Conan Chen, BPEC Vice Chair Nora Zhang, Customs Committee Vice Chair Angela Shi, MSC Vice Chair Ma Mengmeng and member representatives visited the Shanghai Public Security Bureau's Economic Crime Investigation Department (ECID) and were welcomed by Chief of the 10th Detachment of Shanghai ECID Yu Meng.
Michael Ding first introduced the four focuses of QBPC including laws and regulations, exchanges between central and local law enforcement agencies, internal sharing among members and international cooperation. He stressed that QBPC and its member companies would continue to cooperate with the Tenth Detachment of Shanghai ECID to strengthen the criminal protection of intellectual property, forming a regular cooperation mechanism with focused discussion.
Meng mentioned that under the new criminal law amendments that came into effect on March 1, the judiciary would increase the penalties for Intellectual property crimes, enhance the criminal protection of IPR and create the deterrence on criminal acts. At the same time, he expected QBPC and its member companies to share relevant brand information and case leads with them as early as possible. It would enable them to quickly assist right holders to safeguard their IP rights through data research and judgment.
Both parties are currently working with other platforms to initiate the construction and exploration of a Cross-Marketplace IPR Protection and Enforcement Mechanism. This mechanism will provide case leads for criminal investigations and prosecutions as well as establish an early warning system between different e-commerce platforms to effectively deter wrongdoers. QBPC member representatives also raised hot issues such as software copyright infringement, intellectual property issues in high-tech industries, copycat product issues, online anchor infringement and evidence of trademark infringement to exchange with Meng and other police officers.
The representatives of QBPC member companies including ABB, Amazon Kindle Business, Allergan, ANTA, CISCO, Dupont, Honeywell, LEGO, MLB, Sanofi and WAHL attended the meeting.