The Party Secretary of ECUPL Guo Weilu and and the President of ECUPL Ye Qing, accompanied by Qu Yuliang, the Director of the President Office, and Huang Wushuang, the Dean of the School of Intellectual Property, visited the China office of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on November 30, and had in-depth talks with Chen Hongbing, the Director of the China office of WIPO, and Hu Kai, a senior expert.
On behalf of ECUPL, Guo Weilu and Ye Qing thanked the China office for its help and cooperation, and introduced in detail the achievements made by ECUPL's intellectual property (IP) degree course, as well as the high-level research projects in Shanghai and the planning of IP degree courses in the 13th Five-Year Plan of ECUPL. Director Chen Hongbing described in detail the missions and aims of WIPO and their work in the wider world.
After reviewing and summing up the achievements and experiences of the WIPO China Summer School held in ECUPL in 2015 and 2018, the two sides reached an important consensus on the Summer School and its further cooperation with WIPO and their China office. The implementation of this consensus will greatly enhance the internationalization of ECUPL, and raise the quality and influential power of the IP discipline.
WIPO is a global agency for promoting IP policies, services, information and cooperation. It has 191 member states and sets up policy forums for formulating international IP rules that balance the interests of all parties in the changing world. It provides global services for cross-border protection of IP and the resolution of disputes, including the international registration of patents in accordance with The Patent Cooperation Treaty, the international registration of trademarks in accordance with The Madrid System, the international registration of industrial design in accordance with The Hague System, and alternative IP dispute resolution and arbitration mechanisms. It builds technical infrastructure for the connection and sharing of knowledge among different IP systems. Additionally, WIPO has implemented methods for cooperation and capacity-building to enable countries to use IP in economic, social and cultural development, as well as providing a global reference source for IP information.
The WIPO China office was established in Beijing in July 2014, being the fourth overseas office established by WIPO after Japan, Singapore and Brazil. It provides an important platform for cooperation and exchange between China and WIPO, and is also the most active platform of the five existing offices in the world.
