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12 October 2015
China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) celebrated their 30 years of bilateral cooperation, a strategic partnership that made great achievements in innovating businesses in both regions and had a profound impact on worldwide patent system building.
At a symposium held on laste Friday in Lyon, France, in which more than 140 high-level Chinese and European experts from government, industry, academia and patent profession have attended, SIPO and EPO reviewed the achievements of their three decades of collaboration in areas such as staff training and exchanges, the improvement of related laws and regulations, the sharing of data and expertise, as well as the harmonization of tools and procedures.
China and Europe established cooperation in intellectual property in 1985 by signing the first bilateral agreement. In 2007, SIPO and EPO stepped into strategic partnership, which upgraded their cooperation from a purely technical to a strategic level.
