Yes, intellectual property rights are imported.
my country’s modern intellectual property system was established during the tide of reform and opening up, and reached a peak around the time of China’s accession to the WTO. In the past 20 to 30 years, intellectual property rights have become a major new economic development. The characters are gradually becoming familiar to people. In this process, some people believe that intellectual property rights are an accessory of economic globalization that has penetrated into China. They are not naturally established in the process of my country's economic development and are certainly imported.
Although there is still controversy over this statement in the academic community, it is undeniable that opening up to the outside world is indeed an important reason for the rapid development of intellectual property rights in China from concept to protection and transformation.
Before joining the WTO, China had begun to comprehensively revise its intellectual property system in order to comply with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. In September 1992 and August 2000, our country revised the Patent Law respectively; the Trademark Law was also revised in February 1993 and October 2001 respectively; in October 2001, the Copyright Law was revised. In addition, A series of other intellectual property laws and regulations were formulated and improved during this period to further integrate with international standards, and all of these are directly related to China's accession to the WTO.
The administrative and judicial administration of intellectual property protection in China has also experienced a process from scratch. The predecessor of the State Intellectual Property Office was the Patent Office of the People's Republic of China established on January 14, 1980. It was not until 1998 that it was renamed the State Intellectual Property Office and became an agency directly under the State Council, responsible for patent work and overall coordination. Foreign intellectual property matters. It was also in 1996 that the Supreme People's Court established an intellectual property tribunal to hear intellectual property cases. At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, China has gradually formed an intellectual property protection model of "two channels and parallel operations" between the judicial and administrative departments.
“In the 1980s, among the 800 million Chinese people at that time, the public’s understanding of intellectual property rights was almost zero.” “Compared with the hundreds of years of history in Western countries, my country’s establishment of a modern intellectual property system has History is indeed very short.