Recently, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) hosted the 24th TRIPO Heads Meeting among CNIPA, Japan Patent Office (JPO), and Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the 31th CNIPA-JPO Heads Meeting and the 30th CNIPA-KIPO Heads Meeting in Shanghai. CNIPA Commissioner Shen Changyu, JPO Commissioner ONO Yota, and KIPO Commissioner KIM Wan Ki, led their respective delegations to attend the meetings. The three IP offices shared updates on the latest developments in their respective IP work, reviewed the progress of trilateral and bilateral cooperation projects over the past year, planned future collaborations, and signed relevant meeting minutes and a renewed memorandum of understanding on data exchange between CNIPA and KIPO. LEE Hee-Sup, Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, was invited to attend the related meetings and events.

Shen emphasized that Chinese President Xi Jinping has attached great importance to China-Japan-Korea cooperation and has delivered a series of important speeches, providing guidance for the collaboration among the three countries. The CNIPA-JPO-KIPO IP cooperation is a crucial part of trilateral cooperation. This year, the contents of the trilateral IP cooperation were included in the Joint Declaration of the Ninth China-Japan-ROK Trilateral Summit, and the Joint Statement on a 10 Year Vision for Trilateral IP Cooperation was released during the summit, injecting new momentum into trilateral collaboration. Over the years, CNIPA has established friendly cooperative relationships with JPO and KIPO, achieving fruitful results under trilateral and bilateral frameworks. Shen expressed hope that all parties will earnestly implement the new vision set by three countries' leaders, continue expanding areas of cooperation, and elevate the level of collaboration, making positive contributions to regional innovative development, openness, cooperation and global progress.

Both ONO and KIM highly praised the cooperation achievements with CNIPA over the past year and expressed their desire to continue strengthening trilateral and bilateral IP cooperation, and jointly promote the implementation of the Joint Statement on a 10 Year Vision to further foster friendly exchanges in science, technology, economy, and culture among the three countries.

During the TRIPO Heads Meeting, the three offices reached a consensus on measures to implement the Joint Statement on a 10 Year Vision and future directions for collaboration. All parties agreed that next year's TRIPO Heads Meetings and TRIPO User Symposium will be hosted by JPO.

At the same time, the 12th TRIPO User Symposium was held in Shanghai under the theme "Building a better Business Environment Through IP Public Service". In his opening remarks, Shen stated that the protection of property rights, especially IPRs, is a key aspect of building a favorable business environment. Building an accessible and user-friendly public IP service system is essential for promoting the establishment of a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment. He noted that this conference is an important step in implementing the Joint Statement on a 10 Year Vision and expressed hope that the three offices will continue deepening cooperation, mutual learning, and exchange to provide higher-quality and more efficient services for IP users, fostering a better business environment and driving economic development in the three countries.

Both ONO and KIM attended the Symposium and delivered speeches. Over 100 representatives from the three offices and IP practitioners from the three countries participated in the meetings.(Translated from CNIPA Website Chinese Version)