China National Intellectual Property Administration
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The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA; Chinese: 国家知识产权局), also known as the Chinese Patent Office, is the patent office of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was founded in 1980 as the Patent Office of the People's Republic of China, before changing its name to "State Intellectual Property Office" (SIPO), then to "National Intellectual Property Administration",[1] and then to "China National Intellectual Property Administration".[2] It is responsible, in its own words, "for patent work and comprehensively coordination of the foreign related affairs in the field of intellectual property".[3]
See also
- Baidu Patents
- Intellectual property in the People's Republic of China
- First Sino-American Forum of Intellectual Property Rights
References
- ^ http://www.sipo.gov.cn Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, History Archived 2007-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2002-03-05. Consulted on April 26, 2007.
- ^ "China: SIPO has been renamed to CNIPA". European Patent Office. August 28, 2018. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ^ http://www.sipo.gov.cn Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Responsibilities of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) Archived 2007-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2002-04-27. Consulted on April 26, 2007.
External links
- (in Chinese) Official website
- (in English) Official website
- English search functions on the Experimental Platform of Patent Information Services Archived 2007-10-02 at the Wayback Machine (official search service on Chinese patents)
- Information about patent law in China on the European Patent Office web site
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