The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) was awarded "China Top 10 Enterprises for Madrid International Trademark Registration" at the "Symposium in Memory of the 20th Anniversary of China's Entry into 'Madrid Agreement for International Registration of Trade Marks'" held by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce on October 18.
It is learnt that the Award, the first of its kind in China, is designed to emphasize efforts made in international trademark registration, with the quantity of applications for Madrid international trademark registration as its selection criteria. Among the ten award-wining Chinese enterprises, the SSE comes out on top in terms of application amount. Focusing on its goal to build itself into a world-class exchange, the SSE, in recent years, has attached great importance to intellectual property protection by formulating and publishing the "Interim Measures for Administration of Intellectual Property" to strengthen the administration of patent, trademark, domain name and copyright, and has been foresighted and proactive in international registration of trademarks.
According to statistics, 21 trademarks have been domestically registered by the SSE in succession, with 240 registration certificates obtained. In 2007, the SSE submitted, through the Madrid system, applications for international registration of its 14 core trademarks including "SSE", and applied to 20 countries including Britain, the United States and France for territorial extension protection. By now, all of the 14 trademarks have passed the review of the International Bureau of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), been granted international registration certificates and received confirmation for protection from most countries.