Some 30 journalists from 19 media outlets from home and abroad including Routers, CNBC Asia-Pacific Channel, Rossiya Segodnya, Kyodo News Service and People's Daily Overseas Edition were recently ushered into China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and its Patent Examination Cooperation Center (Beijing) to take a close look at how the nation's top IP authority practice patent examination and develop IP development policies for the nation. This event, the first of its kind, was organized by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) and CNIPA.
After the field trip, CNIPA Deputy Commissioner Gan Shaoning and principals of relevant departments sat down with them for a discussion, anchored by SCIO Deputy Director General and Spokesperson Xi Yanchun of Information Office of the State Council.
Heads of examination management department of CNIPA and the examination center elaborated on enhancing the quality and efficiency of examination and history of the center. They also shared views with journalists on relationship between patent and business credit system, changes of numbers of patent applications, IP issues in trade frictions between China and the U.S., and how to deal with IP disputes overseas.
Source: China IP News
