China’s patent protected in Cambodia

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By APD writer Kin Ratha

Phnom Penh, Mar. 14 (APD)- China’s invention patents in Cambodia will enter into force by end of this month, which will help to protect the interest of Chinese investors who are doing business in Cambodia and will also draw more Chinese investment into the Kingdom.

In September 2017, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Commissioner Shen Changyu and Cambodian Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh signed a memorandum of understanding on intellectual property cooperation, which confirmed that China's valid invention patents were allowed to get registered and take effect in Cambodia.

Phe Chantravuth, director of the department of industrial property at the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, said that the ministry of industry and China are closely working to validate the China’s Invention Patents in Cambodia by the end of this month.

Mr Chantravuth said, “We will launch the validity of the China’s Invention Patents in March 28, 2018, and Cambodia and China will sign one more detail agreement to implement China Patents in Cambodia during that day.”

Mr Chantravuth added that China’s invention Patents will be the fourth patents recognized by Cambodia and enter into force after European Patents, Singapore Patents and Japan Patents.

He said that the validation agreement between the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and Cambodia will help Cambodia to protect the Chinese investors whom aims to bring new idea or invention to invest in Cambodia.

He said that the advantages of this validity is due to the fact that Cambodia is lacking of human resource, technique and equipment to check the foreign invention patents, so Cambodia has to cooperate with China and other countries to check it while Cambodia just recognizes the patents and collects income to government coffer.

“We want to increase more Chinese investors in Cambodia so we must have law to protect them. When they invest in Cambodia, they need us to have law on patent to protect them,” Mr Chantravuth said.

“Some Chinese investors do not want to invest in Cambodia since we don’t have law to protect them, now we are working on it to fasten the recognition and launch it in order to attract the Chinese investors to bring new idea to invest in Cambodia,” he added.

According to SIPO’s press release, in early March, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) held a press briefing in Beijing. The SIPO Deputy Commissioner He Zhimin announced the information about China's valid invention patents to take effect in Cambodia.

“Processing applications of China's valid invention patents to take effect in Cambodia would be launched soon; it was a milestone of China-Cambodia intellectual property cooperation, a breakthrough in intellectual property cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative,” Mr He Zhimin said.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)