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| Making enterprises the drivers of innovation is crucial to increasing the commercialization of research results, said Song Xibin, mayor of Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province in Northeast China. |  
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| Intellectual property protection news around the nation. |  
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| John Anderson, the chairman of the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group flew to Beijing last week to present an award to a division of China's Ministry of Public Security for its continuing efforts to crack down on fake merchandise. |  
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| A design company in Xiamen, Fujian province, recently lost a trademark suit when the court ruled that it had used a design for Peking Opera facial makeup as a part of its logo without the authorization of the makeup's designer. |  
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| Intellectual property protection news around the nation. |  
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| During a ceremony on July 16, State Intellectual Property Office Commissioner Tian Lipu issued a patent certificate on the spot to the Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture to mark the 1 millionth invention patent granted in China. |  
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| Microsoft China announced last week that it had initiated legal proceedings against nine computer retailers in China over preinstalled pirated Windows operating systems. |  
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| Intellectual property protection news around the nation. |  
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| Software giant Microsoft has filed a complaint against a Beijing-based maker of auto navigation systems, claiming copyright infringement on its Windows CE software and asking for more than 3.67 million yuan ($577,775) in compensation. |  
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| Just after it settled a long-running dispute over rights to the iPad name in China, Apple Inc is facing another trademark conflict, this time with a Jiangsu company that alleges Apple's Snow Leopard operating system violates its existing trademark. |  |