He Hua Leads Delegation to the UK and France IP Offices and WIPO on a Working Visit

Dec. 8, 2010 - PRLog -- Recently, Deputy Director of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) He Hua led a delegation to the United Kingdom, Switzerland and France on a working visit at the invitation of UK Intellectual Property Office, WIPO and French Industrial Property Office.
During the visit to the UK Intellectual Property Office, the two offices held the 13th joint working committee meeting. The two sides briefed each other about the latest developments in the two offices, and exchanged views on topics of interest, i.e. the communications among patent examiners, intellectual property management in the process of R&D collaboration, the accreditation of national independent innovation products. He Hua and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Chief Executive Officer John Alty signed the 2010 Bilateral Cooperation Framework Agreement.
During the visit to WIPO, He Hua and Deputy Director General of WIPO James Pooley held talks, and the two sides had a in-depth discussion about the cooperation in the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the latest development in PCT. Mr. Pooley expressed his thanks to SIPO's support to WIPO and spoke highly of China in promoting the PCT system. In addition, the delegation also held talks with people in charge of PCT processing service, PCT data services and translation services departments and exchanged views on documents transfer and translation issues during the cooperation. After the meeting, delegation members also visited the PCT documents processing and documents monitoring system.
During their visit to National Industrial Property Institute of France, Deputy General Director Philippe Laval met with the delegation. The delegation had separate talks with people in charge of Business Services Department and the Ministry of patent examination of National Industrial Property Institute of France. The delegation had a general understanding of the services provide to businesses and applicant and the examination process of the National Industrial Property Institute of France. In addition, the delegation also held talks with French IP Agents Council Vice President Micky Wright to include information about French patent agency.

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