SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu, on April 22, met Mrs. Patricia Garcia-Escudero Marquez, commissioner of Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) in Beijing to share comments on latest IPR cooperation between the two sides. Mr. Shen said that China and Spanish have established diplomatic ties for many years, senior leaders of the two counties have paid visits to each other frequently. All these have contributed to close ties on fields of trade-economic, technology, culture, which then brought new vigor and vitality into IPR cooperation between the two sides. “Marquez’s visit will start a new chapter for further fruitful office-office cooperative relationship.” said Mr. Shen.

Shen said that SIPO and SPTO are two important and vibrant offices which have made their joint efforts on promoting innovation development globally, establishing a more inclusive and balanced IPR system. According to him, due to the high-level reciprocal visits, information exchanges and projects cooperation and such similar activities for these years, the two sides have maintained good cooperation and exchanges under bilateral frameworks and multilateral frameworks.

Marquez shared the same views with Mr. Shen. She also hoped that the two sides will work further together to push for steady development of friendly a bilateral cooperation, and yield substantial results.

During the meeting, Mr. Shen and Mrs. Marquez also shared comments on some leading edge topics, such as building cloud patent examination system, telecommuting construction, development of system of patent for utility model in China.

Without question, companies are direct beneficiaries. Latest numbers show that as of the end of February 2014, Spanish companies have filed an accumulated of 3,640 patent applications in China, 1,211 of which have been authorized, and they now own 809 living inventions.

(China IP News)

2014-05-05

2014-05-05