Intellectual Property Magazine
Building an IP powerhouse
Gowling WLG’s Jian Xu provides 10 highlights from China’s plan for building a powerful IP nation
Jian Xu, Gowling WLG
China released The outline of building a powerful intellectual property nation (2021–2035) (hereinafter the outline) on 22 September 2021. It is a continuation of China’s National IP Strategy issued in 2008, and will
be the strongest policy documents and guides for the next three five-year plans. While it can be said that the 2008 Strategy
is to bring China into an “IP conscious” nation, the 2021 outline is ambitious and aims to transform China into an “IP powerful”
nation. This article provides 10 highlights of the outline which affects legal practice and foreign rightsholders.