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On 1-3 February 2010, a delegation of officials from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) visited London on a study tour supported by IPR2 towards strengthening criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights in China. The delegates met with European IPR enforcement experts, police and industry as part of collaborating on advanced enforcement practices; and seeing how enforcement agencies and industry associations involved in anti-counterfeiting and piracy operate on the job.
The MPS delegation was led by Mr Liu Dong, Deputy Director-General of the Economic Crime Investigation Department of MPS, together with senior officials from Jiangsu Provincial Department of Public Security, Public Order Administration Department, and the Public Information Network Security Supervision Department.
The officials met with UK and international enforcement authorities - Detective Inspector Graham Mogg, Intelligence Co-ordinator for the UK IPO, Mr. John Newton, IPR Programme Manager at INTERPOL and Mr Kenneth Wright, Principal Advisor to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office to gain a better understanding of the UK’s IPR enforcement strategy; as well as Mr Jeremy Banks, Anti-Piracy Director of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and Mr Thanassis Zemberis, Senior Forensic Officer.
The study tour is part of building a solid communication network between high-level European and Chinese enforcement authorities and using the train-the-trainers methodology, helped to support a better understanding of the professional tools and procedures implemented in Europe.
MPS is in charge of public security in China and coordination of local police services in provinces, municipalities and cities. MPS becomes involved in IP enforcement when the threshold for an IP crime passes from administrative to criminal, in line with China's Criminal Law.
This is part of a broader effort to strengthen criminal enforcement at two levels: supporting research activities, exchange studies and sharing of best practice; and implementing a coordinated and systematic training programme for enforcement trainers. It follows the EU-China training course on criminal IPR enforcement and application of criminal IP law between IPR2 and MPS held in Wuhan in July 2009.
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