On November 21, 2013, the seventh China Patent Week with the theme of "guiding industrial development with patent and supporting business innovation"was opened.

Seven years ago, China patent week was born when China is accelerating construction of innovative country and harmonious society. In seven years, the patent week has been closely tied to construction of innovative country, and is slowly filtering into people's mind.

During the seven years from 2006 to 2012, China has launched six patent weeks of different forms. The colorful activities companies to formulate and utilize of patent strategy, so as to facilitate the transferring of their business concepts and development models. Through that platform, more and more patents were exhibited and traded, many companies were also benefited from the events.

Concentrates innovation power

This patent week is aimed to improve industrial innovative capacity by using of IP system and play role of IP in servicing companies, which is also expected by many companies and innovators. Compared with previous six events, the seventh patent week takes on a new look.

The biggest difference is that the event is launched on the China Intellectual Property Network (www.cneip.org.cn),

The patent week of this year focus on pushing patent strategy promotion plan to companies, together with other key policies including patent guiding pilot project and IP service plan. Meanwhile, some colorful activities would also be carried out. Aiming at the actual difficulties and demands of companies, a group of IP experts also share IP management experience with them and enhance their IP management.

In terms of propaganda, the event make full use of website to spread IP news took place in the patent week. "We would make efforts to form its brand influence in the country by pragmatic services and accumulation of experiences," said a relevant principal of patent management department of SIPO.

Sounds beautiful music of innovation

In local event, the local IP offices throught out the country highlight the role of internet in the event, and in the ideas of inovative and economical , initate a series of activities such as patent exhibition and trades, giving lectures and reports.

In Beijing, the Beijing IP Office launched a series of unique activities to create a sound IP environment. During the patent week, Beijing provide a training program of standardized management for comparies, and organized a conference on patent commercialization. Beijing IP Office will promote IP standardized IP management among 104 companies in the city. Currently, 18 IP advisory organizations are establishing a special work group to investigate the present situation and find out problems of the companies, which lay a solid foundation for the next phase of the standardized work.

In Guangdong province, a series of colorful activities including stardardized IP management training for companies. Besides, the province also carried out a patent exhibition with supports from four national patent technology exhibition centers in Guangzhou, Foshan, Shenzhen and Dongguan. The 2013 China (Guangdong) IP investment and financing conference was also held during the week. Yunnan province emphasized on promotion of the patent technology information on website, and organized a group of typical IP commercialization companies to carry out technological exchanges and cooperation via Kunming patent exhibition and trade networking platform.The site of event are National Patent Technology (Kunming) Exhibition and Trade Center and Kuming New Technological Trade Center of Economical and Technological Development Area. 

The event is under way. We believed that it would be a successful event under full cooperation from all sides.

(China IP News)