National_Intellectual_Property_Administration

China National Intellectual Property Administration

China National Intellectual Property Administration

Patent office of the People's Republic of China

"CNIPA" redirects here. For the former Italian public body, see Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione.

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA; 国家知识产权局) is the patent and trademark office and primary intellectual property regulator of the People's Republic of China.

Headquarters of the CNIPA
Patents granted to Chinese and foreign inventors between 2002 and 2013.

Naming

The agency 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, in 2018, to "China National Intellectual Property Administration".[2][3]: 4 

History

SIPO established[when?] a database of patents granted for traditional Chinese medicine.[4]: 214 

As SIPO, the institution became the world's largest patent office in 2011.[3]: 4 

To streamline the patent application process for patentees filing under both the Chinese and United States systems, SIPO and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) established a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program on December 1, 2011.[5]: 141 

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    "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.
  3. [3]
    Cheng, Wenting (2023). China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property: Implications for Global Distributive Justice. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies series. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-24369-1.
  4. [4]
    Cheng, Wenting (2023). China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property: Implications for Global Distributive Justice. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies series. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-24369-1.
  5. [5]
    Lewis, Joanna I. (2023). Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54482-5.


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