Shanghai saw the number of valid invention patents spike 12.21 percent year-on-year to 293,700 in the first half of this year, Yu Chen, deputy director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration said during a news conference on Sept 9.
Top officials with the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration or SIPA met with a delegation from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council for key talks on Aug 20.
Shanghai's Lin-gang Special Area registered the nation's first intellectual property,or IP for a data product serving cross-border "data-to-process" services.
Shanghai established the Private Enterprises Intellectual Property Protection Committee on July 30 — in a bid to strengthen intellectual property or IP protection and to promote the high-quality development of private enterprises.
Starting Aug 6, several trademark systems have been operating under new URLs.
Watch this video to discover how Shanghai is pioneering administrative adjudication for patent infringement disputes.
A delegation from the Japan External Trade Organization's Shanghai office, known as JETRO, visited the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration or SIPA on July 22.
Shanghai opened its first service station for the intellectual property registration of data products in the Hongqiao International Central Business District on July 21.