Gan Shaoning, the deputy director of the China's State Intellectual Property Office, has disclosed to the media that SIPO will provide two relief channels for intellectual property protection for the World Expo 2010.

With the approval of the State Council, China's Ministry of Finance has allocated CNY50 million from the lottery public welfare fund to the China Legal Aid Foundation to subsidize legal aid cases.

The Intermediate Peoples' Court of Kunming has announced that in conjunction with Kunming Municipal Environment Department it will set up a fund to defray the costs of lawsuits over environmental public welfare issues.

Zhou Li, a former employee of GE Healthcare China, has filed a lawsuit against GE Healthcare over a disputed contract.

Following two cases of alleged mercury poisoning cases in Beijing, a Chinese consumer surnamed Gao has sued the Beijing Coca-Cola Company to court after allegedly finding a worm in a bottle of Sprite produced by the company.

Chinese search engine service provider Baidu said that it has filed a U.S. lawsuit in a New York court against Register.com alleging the latter's negligence in preventing a hacker attack on its website last week.

According to Xinhuanet.com, China's State Intellectual Property Office has approved the establishment of 61 intellectual property rights protection aid centers and launched a special hotline (12330) dedicated to IPR protection aid.