BEIJING, Apr.27 (China IP News) -- On April 26, an open day was hosted by SIPO in Beijing. Representatives from the enterprises, students from colleges and universities, teachers and students as representatives from IP education pilot schools were invited to participate in this event. SIPO commissioner Shen Changyu attended the launching ceremony of open day and delivered a speech. Since 2006, SIPO has held open day to the public for continuous 11 times.

In the speech, Shen Changyu introduced the new progress that China has made in IP during the past years. He said that, during last year, the State Council issued the "Opinions on accelerating the construction of intellectual property power under the new situation", making an arrangement for the construction of intellectual property power; at the start of 2016, "accelerate the construction of intellectual property power" have been written into the "national strategic framework for innovation-driven development", work report of national government and 13th Five-Year Plan; Recently, the national government introduced the intellectual property 13th Five-Year Plan into 20 national key special Plans. These fully reflects the CPC central committee and State Council's concern, attention and support on intellectual property affairs, while this also put forward new and higher requirements for intellectual property development.

When talking about Intellectual property's promotion on innovation and entrepreneurship, Shen Changyu pointed out that, SIPO will further strengthen IP protection, promote intellectual property transformation and utilization, offering more support for innovation and entrepreneurship. When talking about professional training on IP talented person in colleges and universities and IP education in middle and primary schools, Shen Changyu said that, SIPO will continue to strengthen development of intellectual property disciplines in the universities joint with the relevant departments in recent years, and increase efforts to train personnel specialized in IP and will establish series of training bases for IP talented person in relevant universities; meanwhile, SIPO will actively promote the integration of IP into primary and secondary education system, to consolidate the social basis of intellectual property development.

During the event, under the guidance of SIPO staffs and volunteers, representatives visited the exhibition on SIPO service for innovation and entrepreneurship and exhibition on national IP education pilot in primary and secondary schools, as well as SIPO Document libraries, SIPO History Hall, reception hall and Examination Department of Chemical Inventions, and exchanged with patent examiners.

2016-04-27

2016-04-27