Kyodo: China Urges Patience from I/P Owners

According to an October 19, 2004 Kyodo news story, Japan and European officials at a two-day China-EU-Japan IP Seminar conference ending Tuesday were urged by China to be patient, because China's 20-year piracy criminal code is young compared with those of Japan and Europe. "There are many problems yet to be addressed, but the Chinese government knows and is doing something," reportedly said Li Ling, director general of the Commerce Ministry's Treaty and Law Department.