Results from cross-Straits accord

After a cross-Straits intellectual property agreement took effect last September, mainland authorities dealt with 73 claims related to application dates by the end of 2010 - 64 over invention patents, eight for utility model patents and one trademark case.
Twenty-three requests for priority rights were handled in Taiwan during the same time, one over a trademark, one about a utility model patent and the rest for invention patents.
Reciprocal acceptance of claims helps prevent illegal pre-emptive applications due to differences in time requirements in filing, a measure important to the island's industries, said the administration officials.
The agreement was signed by the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and its Taiwan counterpart, the Straits Exchange Foundation.
Beijing Times