Alibaba.com, the business-to-business e-commerce company, is offering two new services to buyers and sellers — the Quality Supplier Program and the Gold Supplier Starter Pack — and is taking steps to protect its users intellectual property rights.

Local media reports from a recent Blu-ray Disc Association press conference that Shanghai Epic Music Entertainment Company Ltd. will start producing Blu-ray Discs in mainland China.

The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce has announced that Changyu Pioneer Wine Company is the owner of the trademark "Jiebaina".

Right before the World Intellectual Property Rights Day on April 26, 2008, the Shenzhen Procuratorial Department published details of a software piracy case jointly uncovered by police from China and the United States.

Proving that patents are very important in China, Bayer CropScience says it has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese company Jiangsu Tian Rong in an intermediate court in Jiangsu to enforce rights under its Chinese Mefenpyr patent.