The 15th IP Policy Meeting among SIPO, JPO and KIPO Held in Guangzhou

On November 17, the 15th IP Policy Dialogue Meeting between China's State Intellectual Property Office, Japan Patent Office and Korean Patent Office was held in Guangzhou. Shen Changyu, the commissioner of SIPO, Hitoshi Ito, the commissioner of JPO, and Choi Donggyou, the commissioner of  KIPO, attended the meeting and addressed. Three parties jointly reviewed the achievements of cooperation over the past year, and exchanged views of common concern.

Shen Changyu pointed out that over the past year, three offices co-hosted several joint activities including the patent examination experts meeting, automation experts meeting, review experts meetings, design forums, training institutions seminars, which effectively promoted the innovation and development of three countries, and economic, trade, science and technology and cultural exchanges among the three countries. He expected a closer cooperation between three offices through this meeting to lay a solid foundation for future cooperation.

Hitoshi Ito, the commissioner of JPO, and Choi Donggyou, the commissioner of KIPO, spoke highly of the new progress in the past year in trilateral cooperation and expressed that such cooperation on intellectual property rights was not only beneficial to the improvement of the national patent system, but also played a very important role in the development of the global intellectual property. They thought the policy dialogue mechanisms built important platform for cooperation, and hoped to continue to rely on the platform to strengthen policy communication, deepen pragmatic cooperation, and strive to achieve more fruitful results, to jointly promote the development of intellectual property rights of three countries.

On the meeting, three offices carried out extensive and in-depth exchanges around the cooperation in design, automation, reexamination and training institutions. In additoin, three offices also reported the latest developments in intellectual property rights in their countries respectively. After the meeting, three officers signed the "Minutes of Talks of 15th Policy Dialogue Meeting between SIPO, JPO and KIPO". Three offices also decided that the next policy dialogue would be held in Japan in 2016.

Additionally, on the 3rd Seminar on Intellectual Property on November 17, three offices of China, Japan and Korea announced that the website TRIPO adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean service under trilingual cooperation was formally launched, further defined that three offices would better serve the public.

(Source: China IP News)