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Washington complaints 'will hurt trade ties'
By Xie Chuanjiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-04-25 08:45 Moreover,patent, customs and industry and commerce departments handled 17,243 infringement cases involving nearly 1 billion yuan ($129.5 million). "The United States has totally ignored the massive strides China has made," Wu said. She said the US move had betrayed the consensus reached by China and the US to resolve trade issues through dialogue. Wu, who heads the country's economic dialogue with Washington, said Beijing's attitude toward IPR protection has always been resolute, and its achievements obvious. Since the 1970s, China has enacted a succession of protection laws such as theTrademarkLaw, Patent Law, andCopyrightLaw. The country has also joined a string of international IPR protection conventions. Last year, the country formally joined the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. "We have spent merely 30 years on what some developed countries have achieved in more than a hundred years," Wu said. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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