On November 23, the Eleventh Conference of Heads of Offices between the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office was held in Zhengzhou. State Intellectual Property Office (S...
On March 12th, as State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Commissioner Shen Changyu answered a reporter's question during the time of Minister's Passage in the Great Hall of the People, he stated that this year si...
In 2016, China saw an extraordinary growth in PCT filing (44.7%), and ZTE Corporation (4,123) overtook Huawei Technologies (3,692) as the biggest filer of international patent applications via WIPO. In 2016, China-b...
To make clear judicial rules and unify standards, the Supreme People's Court has released a new batch of guiding cases, all involving intellectual property disputes. It is the first time for the court to roll out su...
Source: Xinhua The European Patent Office (EPO) on Tuesday published its 2016 Annual Report revealing China showed the highest growth in patent applications. According to the report, the number of patent applicati...
1 March 2017 Carl Josefsson has commenced his role as the new President of the EPO Boards of Appeal (BoA). The new position of BoA President has been introduced as one of the main pillars of a package of measure...
Latest statistics from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) show that China handled 3.691 million trademark applications in 2016, remaining world's largest for 15 consecutive years. Meanwhile, G...
China Daily -- The Smart Science and Generic Technology Research Institute, co-founded by Nanxiang Shineland Industrial Park and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, is inaugurated in Nanxiang town...
China IP News -- On December 26th, the ceremony for the WIPO-SIPO Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention & Industrial Design was held in Beijing. A total of 20 inventions, utility model patents were aw...
Dec.19 (China Daily) -- The Zhongguancun Standardization Association was established on Dec 16 in Beijing. At the establishment ceremony, the first seven Zhongguancun standards were released and the Bank of Beijing...
Dec.9 (China IP News) -- On Dec.8th, the 23rd Heads Meeting between the SIPO and JPO was held in Odawara, Japan. Commissioner Shen Changyu of SIPO and Commissioner Yoshinori Komiya of JPO attended the meeting. Shen...
A comprehensive picture of IP activity around the world based on statistics from national and regional IP offices, WIPO and the World Bank. Covers filing, registration and renewals data for patents, utility models, tr...
Nov.28 (China IP News) -- On November 22nd, SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu met with EAPO Commissioner Saule Tlevlessova in Beijing. Shen regarded EAPO as a very important partner of SIPO. He placed high expectations...
Nov.16 -- On November 8, Hosted by the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO), the High-level Asian Regional Seminar on Intellectual Property Strategy and Policy was opened in Beijing. Deputy Directo...
Nov.10 -- Recently, cohosted by the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO), the Intellectual Property Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Repub...
Nov.4 -- Recently, at the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) in Beijing, Deputy Director Zhang Maoyu met with Philippe Bachtold, Senior Director of the PCT Operations Department of the World Inte...
Oct.19 (China IP News) -- The 56th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO was held in Geneva, Switzerland recently. SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu led the Chinese delegation and attended t...
October 3 to 11, 2016 The Fifty-Sixth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO will take place at the WIPO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from capitals (whether ...
On April 20, the 2017 High-Level Forum on China IP Protection with the theme of Era of Innovation: IP Protection was held in Beijing. SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu, World Intellectual Property Organization Deputy D...
Recently, SIPO issued China's report on patent power scorecard in 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Report') which has been consecutively published for 6 years, In 2016, the overall power scorecard of China's pa...