Recently, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Comprehensive Bilateral Cooperation in IP Field and other cooperative documents such as Joint Statement of Intent on Extension of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Project and E-exchange of Priority Documents, etc.
The documents indicated that in 2014, apart from the extension of the PPH project and e-exchanges of priority documents, IP strategic cooperation between the two countries will be further enhanced in other areas, such as commercialization of IP rights, bilateral communication on international IP issues, and implementation of more mutual beneficial IP protection projects.
