Recently, the first China-Japan-Korea International Intellectual Property workshop was held in Beijing. The workshop was co-hosted by China Intellectual Property Society, Intellectual Property Association of Japan and Korea Industrial Property Law Association.
According to senior official from SIPO, China, Japan and South Korea are sharing many common interests and facing different problems. The efforts made by non-government organizations in three countries are of great significance to the prosperous and healthy development of the IP system and innovation in these countries.
Representatives from the Japan and South Korea from the three countries actively exchanged ideas on the latest development of respective IP legal systems among other hotspot topics.
It is learnt that IP offices of the three countries established a dialogue mechanism as early as in 2001, and they also signed an agreement for cooperation in IP field. In recent years, China Intellectual Property Society managed to sign agreements with Intellectual Property Association of Japan and Korea Industrial Property Law Association——both are non-governmental organizations——and thus formulated a framework for trilateral partnership among civil societies.
