The 18th TRIPO Heads Meeting was held on December 13 in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China. Jiang Chaoliang, Secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and Wang Xiaodong, Governor of Hubei Province met with a delegation led by Shen Changyu, Commissioner of China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA); Commissioner Naoko Munakata of Japan Patent Office (JPO) and Commissioner Park Won-joo of Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) attended the meeting. Jiang Chaolong expressed his welcome to the convening of the meeting in Wuhan on behalf of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and Hubei Provincial Government. Shen Changyu remarked that the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and Hubei Provincial Government had paid high attention to the IP cause for a long time, and provided strong support for the successful convening of the meeting; hopefully the meeting may actively promote the communication and cooperation between Hubei Province, Japan and Korea in the IP field. Over 200 attendees from the three offices, the industrial circle, the academic circle and IP agencies made discussion and exchanges in the seminar.

Source: CNIPA