Lately, SIPO Deputy Commissioner He Zhimin led a delegation on invitation to Prague, the Czech Republic to attend 2018 China-Visegrad Group (V4) Joint Seminar on Intellectual Property and delivered a keynote speech on the meeting. Josef Kratochvíl, President of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic, Viktor Luszcz, President of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, Richard Messinger, President of the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic, Slawomir Wachowicz, Deputy President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, and Mark Gardonyi, Director of the Visegrad Patent Institute, presented at the meeting.  Representatives of IP-related government institutions, universities, investment institutions, law firms and industries of V4 countries attended the seminar.
In the seminar, He Zhimin introduced in details features of Chinese IP system, IP protection status in China, and updates on promotion of awareness and facilitation of IP application and international cooperation. He Zhimin's speech further expanded China's influence on the Central Europe. He Zhimin and other members of the delegation also had a roundtable meeting with heads of intellectual property offices of V4 countries, discussed on further cooperation between China and V4, and reached an agreement on issues including the next joint seminar on intellectual property.

Source: SIPO