The meeting of the directors of the IP 5, the China National Intellectual Property Administration, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, and the South Korean Intellectual Property Office will be hosted by CNIPA for the first time through a video conference on July 21. The annual meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Chengdu, China in June, but it was postponed due to the epidemic situation and was held by video conference.
The IP 5 directors meeting is the most influential event in the cooperation of the five offices. It has received extensive attention from the global intellectual property community and has a milestone significance for the cooperation process and future development of the five offices. The meeting will focus on the strategic measures to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic and the cooperation between the five offices in the post-epidemic era. The meeting will also report on and approve the progress and next steps of cooperation projects such as emerging technologies and patent coordination, as well as online meeting guidelines that regulate the new working mode of the five offices' cooperation.
