Recently, Ningbo Intellectual Property Office hosted a meeting which was attended by representatives from twelve local patent agencies. The director of the office Li Xu summarized progress made in 2012 and introduced working plans in 2013. He required those agencies to make every effort to support a program on increasing invention patents. Participants discussed issues on the amendment of patent subsidized policies and exchanged their experience on filing international patent applications. Moreover, officials from the office also urged the agencies to enhance their service awareness and self management to increase the development momentum in this regard in Ningbo.
(Source: IPR in China)