The Eleventh Conference of Heads of Offices between SIPO and EPO Ends in Zhengzhou

2017/12/08

On November 23, the Eleventh Conference of Heads of Offices between the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office was held in Zhengzhou. SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu and EPO President Benoit Battistelli addressed the conference. At the meeting, the two sides signed the Agreement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between SIPO and EPO and the Work Plan for 2018 Bilateral Cooperation between SIPO and EPO. They also jointly reviewed and summarized the two parties' recent development in cooperation, especially cooperation in last year, and had wide and in-depth exchanges and reached consensus on issues including the development of all-round strategic partnership in the future, patent data exchange, CPC classification, examination capacity building, examination quality improving, patent re-examination, patent information and cooperation between the IP five offices. Accompanied by Shen Changyu, Benoit Battistelli and his delegation also visited the Henan Center of Patent Examination under SIPO and had exchanges with the examiners there.

Source: SIPO