On July 14, Report on IP Environment in Countries or Regions along "the Belt and Road" Route and in Latin America Release Conference was held in Beijing. Deputy Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) Gan Shaoning attended the conference and delivered a speech.
The release conference was hosted by SIPO, organized by the China Intellectual Property Society (CIPS), and co-organized by Advance China IP Law Office, Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd and Beijing Kangxin Intellectual Property Agency Ltd. The conference has attracted over 350 attendants from government departments, enterprises, colleges and universities, scientific institutions and IP services institutions. ACIP’s Managing Partner Mr. Jie HU, Senior Partner Ms. Shelley ZHENG and trademark attorney Ms. Xiaoxiao CHEN also attended this release conference.
Gan pointed out that with the development of "the Belt and Road" Initiative reaching a higher level, China and other related countries and regions are collaboratively opening a new chapter in which regional collaboration and reciprocal and mutual benefit played an important part. On the one hand, in such an opener market, China and other related countries and regions will collaborate and compete fully. In 2015, 3,287 patent applications from China were filed in the countries along "the Belt and Road" route, and China received a total of 3,127 patent applications from these countries, a proof that the patent events between China and the Belt and Road countries were becoming more and more frequent. On the other hand, 3/4 domestic enterprises are obtaining IP limited information on oversea intellectual property. The intellectual property risks in the process of expanding overseas markets there is a big uncertainty. For these problems encountered by enterprises, government departments should provide active help.
Deputy Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) Gan Shaoning attended the conference and delivered a speech.
SIPO released a 10-volume set Overview of the IP Environment in Countries or Regions along "the Belt and Road" Route and in Latin America, which covered 47 countries along "the Belt and Road" route and 11 countries in Latin America, and Directory of the IP Service Institutions in Countries or Regions along "the Belt and Road" Route at the conference.
ACIP has undertaken the subject research on the IP environment in Latin America and Inner Mongolia. And at the release conference, these two reports were delivered by Mr. Jie HU, managing partner of ACIP and Ms. Xiaoxiao CHEN respectively.
Mr. Jie HU delivered report on the IP environment in Latin America
Ms. Xiaoxiao CHEN divered report on the IP environment in Inner Mongolia
All these overviews were well received by the participants and evoked positive feedbacks. Experts, scholars and lawyers from scientific institutions and law firms at home and abroad conducted keynote speeches on the intellectual property (IP) environment in the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Central Asia, Mongolia and Turkey.
Overview of the IP Environment in Countries or Regions along "the Belt and Road" Route and in Latin America
