IX. Services to Right-holders

1. To hold meetings with foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) regularly for exchanges and coordinating mechanisms, and to solicit right holders' opinions and suggestions, address important issues proposed by the right holders.

2. To promote and guide the lawyers to expand IPR legal services and provide legal services in creating, using, managing and protecting IPR.

3. To establish hotlines and web-based service platforms for companies to protect their overseas IPR.

4. To improve trademark review system, thus enhancing work quality and efficiency and to focus on addressing issues that damage the trademark interests of the parties concerned such as prolonged trademark registration period, hostile application, hostile objection, hostile transfer, etc.

5. To work on trademark registration and Phase III of the management automation system so as to prepare for a complete operation of online trademark application and the overall online application.

6. To set up contact points for geographical indications and to carry out in-depth study on the role of protecting geographical indications in increasing the farmers' income and summing up and promoting the experiences in time.

7. To improve the building of collective administrative organizations for copyrights and promote the preparation for setting up collective administrative organizations for copyrights, such as in text, photography and film.

8. To establish and improve National IPR Protection Association and trade associations.

(China.org.cn)