Sep.6 -- Cohosted by the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) and the Intellectual Property Office of UK (IPO), the 3rd UK-China Intellectual Property Symposium was held in Beijing on August 26. Commissioner of the SIPO Shen Changyu and Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property Baroness Neville-Rolfe attended the opening ceremony and delivered speech. Shen Changyu pointed out that the holding of the symposium was a concrete measure to implement the outcome of President Xi Jinping's visiting to UK in October 2015, and bore significant meaning for the promotion of intellectual property (IP) development in the two countries. The SIPO was willing to join hands with the IPO and continuously raise the IP cooperation between China and UK to higher levels.
　　　　
Shen Changyu said that the IPO was an important partner of the SIPO, and that since the signing of Memorandum of Understanding in 1996, the two sides had conducted effective cooperation in areas such as high level communication, IP policies and laws, patent examination, personnel exchange, cohosting symposiums and providing services to enterprises, bringing tangible benefits to innovators and the industry in the two countries.

In her speech, Neville-Rolfe also pointed out that, in recent years, China and UK have been playing significant roles at the forefront of global IP system, and their influence increased steadily. The important role of IP has become more and more apparent in communications between the two countries, and it has been continuously promoting the cooperation developments between the two sides. On July 1 this year, the Patent Examination Highway (PPH) pilot program between UK and China was prolonged indefinitely; by the end of this year, the IPO will become an official user of China's Cloud Patent Examination System (CPES). The two sides will further implement the outcomes of meetings between heads of the two countries, and continue to communicate frontier problems in the global IP field, hence promoting the development of friendship between the two countries through IP.

At the symposium, about 200 guests from the two governments' IP departments, courts, local IP administrative departments in charge, industry associations, enterprises and colleges and universities exchanged in-depth views on topics such as IP in innovation, the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the enforcement of IP laws, reaching broad consensus. (Translated from China IP News) 

2016-09-06

2016-09-06