Cambodia has received the details of the first 20 patents from companies as an agreement recognising Chinese intellectual property rights came into force officially.
The patents were handed over on Thursday of last week at the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Phnom Penh.
The agreement was officially signed by Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) commissioner Shen Changyu and Cambodian Industry Minister Cham Prasidh.
“The validation agreement between SIPO and Cambodia officially entered into force on March 29, helping protect Chinese invention patents in the kingdom,” said Phe Chantravuth, director of the ministry’s department of intellectual property.
He said that during the official MoU signing, China applied for recognition of 20 patents and Cambodia handed over the recognition certificates the same day to his Chinese counterpart.
Mr Chantravuth said three companies applied for patent recognition. Huawei Technology had two patents, ZTE Cooperation had eight and Nutech Limited had ten.
“This is the first set of 20 patents and there will be more from China,” he said.
