The theme of this year's World Intellectual Property Day is 'The power of change: women's participation in innovation and creativity' and reflects women's outstanding contributions to the advancement of human civilization. At the opening ceremony of the opening day, the Patent Review Board of the State Intellectual Property Office released 2017 In the ten cases where the annual patent review was invalidated, the Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office issued ten typical cases of investigating and infringement of trademark infringement in 2017. The first series of novels of “I will invent” series of novels published by the Intellectual Property Publishing House was launched, China Intellectual Property News. The "IP guest" APP was formally launched. Chen Yuanqing, director of intellectual property of Lenovo Group, talked about women's experience and experience in innovation creation.
It is understood that the Open Day activities of the State Intellectual Property Office have been held for 13 consecutive years. It has become an important window for the outside world to understand the Intellectual Property Office. It also shows the achievements and self-confidence of Chinese intellectual property from one side. Over the past five years, national intellectual property rights The bureau approved the construction of 14 national intellectual property service industry cluster development zones and selected 145 national intellectual property service brand fostering institutions. As of the end of last year, the number of institutions in China whose main business was intellectual property services had exceeded 26,000. With an increase of 30%, the State Intellectual Property Office and the Ministry of Education have already assessed 112 pilot schools for IPR education across the country. The provinces, provinces, and municipalities have also assessed nearly 1,000 IP education at the provincial level. Pilot model schools. In terms of intellectual property cultural propaganda, the State Intellectual Property Office actively promotes the promotion of intellectual property rights, actively proactively addresses China's intellectual property stories to the world, transmits good voices of Chinese intellectual property rights, and further establishes a sound international network for the strict protection of intellectual property rights. Image, better serve expanding openness.
The establishment of the World Intellectual Property Day was a proposal jointly proposed by China and Algeria in 1999. In October 2000, the World Intellectual Property Organization’s thirty-fifth session of the General Assembly adopted a proposal for the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Day, which was decided from 2001. The April 26th of each year was designated as the World Intellectual Property Day. April 26 was chosen as the World Intellectual Property Day, because on April 26, 1970, the "Convention on the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization" entered into force, the world intellectual property rights. The organization was officially established. On June 3, 1980, China joined the Convention and became the 90th member of the Convention. The establishment of the World Intellectual Property Day aims to build a world-wide awareness of respecting knowledge, advocating science and protecting intellectual property rights. , Create a legal environment that encourages knowledge innovation.