The 10th Meeting of BRICS Heads of Intellectual Property Offices (BRICS HIPO) was held in Chengdu on March 26th. SIPO Commissioner Shen Changyu chaired the meeting, and signed the "Joint Statement on Strengthening Intellectual Property Cooperation" on behalf of SIPO with the heads of the other four BRICS IP offices. This was the first official joint statement by the BRICS IP offices to identify their cooperative goals and fields. The statement pointed out that the BRICS IP offices will aim at promoting BRICS's IP development, providing better service to IP users and the public of the BRICS countries, and increasing the voice and representation of the BRICS countries in the global IP system. They will carry out further exchanges and cooperation on seven aspects – laws and regulations, capacity building, enhancing public IP awareness, personnel training, IP information, coordination at international IP fora, and the building of BRICS cooperation mechanism.

Source: SIPO