Recently, the UK magazine Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) released the list of "Top 50 Most Influential People in IP Worldwide". Tian Lipu, Commissioner of the State IP Office（SIPO）, is on the list for an eighth time. Up to now, MIP has done the selection for consecutive eleven years.

On the name list, Tian Lipu is introduced in this way: Tian has been the model who strives for the implementation of China's national IP strategy and shifting China from a manufacturing based economy to an innovation-driven one. Under his leadership, China received the most invention patent filings in the world in 2012. Moreover, China is on the way to other goals. For example, the number of invention patents owned per ten thousand heads aims to rise to 3.3 in 2015.

Moreover, Liu Chuntian, director of IP teaching and research center of Renmin University, Jack Chang, head of the Quality Brands Protection Committee of the Chinese Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, Kong Xiangjun, the chief judge of the IP tribunal court of the Supreme People's Court, Song Jianhua, director of SIPO's Law and Treaty Department, and Song Liuping, chief legal officer of Huawei Technologies Company Limited also won the honor.

Besides, Francis Gurry, director-general of the World IP Organization, Benoit Battistelli, president of the European Patent Office, and Teresa Stanek Rea, the current acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, are also on the list.

 

(China IP News)

2013-09-09

2013-09-09