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Hong Kong Customs will launch a scheme in October to help exhibitors to protect intellectual property rights.
Through the "Fast Action Scheme", Hong Kong Customs aims to combat intellectual property rights infringement activities at large-scale exhibitions.
Companies intending to join exhibitions can provide information on brands and copyrights of their products on display to relating industry organisations in advance for verification and record-keeping. Once suspected intellectual property rights infringement activities occur, Customs officers can follow up promptly based on information collected by the industry in advance.
In the forthcoming exhibitions on electronic products this October, Hong Kong Customs will join hands with Hong Kong Brands Protection Alliance for a trial scheme. The Alliance will set up a committee for keeping information on brands and relating copyrights.
To inform members details of the scheme, the Alliance held a preparatory seminar on the "Fast Action Scheme" at a hotel in Kowloon this morning (May 29).
Attending the seminar were Permanent Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology (Commerce and Industry), Miss Yvonne Choi; Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Mr Timothy Tong; Assistant Commissioner, Mr Leung Koon-wah; and Assistant Executive Director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Mr Benjamin Kai-leung Chau.
Ends/Monday, May 29, 2006
Issued at HKT 19:38
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