- http://www.ensipa.cn/2020-11/06/c_561389.htm
Cooperation between Shanghai, WIPO
The city of Shanghai has maintained a good cooperative relationship with the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, for a long time. In 2014 and 2018, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and WIPO signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a supplementary agreement on IP respectively, laying a solid foundation for Shanghai to comprehensively upgrade its IP work and deepen multi-dimensional cooperation and exchanges in the field of IP.
The two sides have deepened their cooperation in promoting the transformation and use of IP, the construction of a mechanism for solving IP disputes and attracting more IP international resources to Shanghai.
They will provide strong support to building Shanghai into an IP hub in the Asia-Pacific region and a high-standard international IP protection highland.
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In December 2011, Zhao Wen, then vice mayor of Shanghai, led a delegation to WIPO. Since then, Zhao has led several delegations to visit the WIPO headquarters in Geneva and called on then WIPO Director-General Francis Gurry.
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On May 7-11, in 2013, Christian Wichard, deputy director-general of WIPO, visited Shanghai to participate in the first China (Shanghai) International Technology Fair. WIPO is the supporting unit of the fair.
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In September 2014, Lyu Guoqiang, then director-general of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA), attended the 54th Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO. Lyu delivered a speech entitled "IP Pledge Financing and Value Realization" at the special conference on "IP Financing Facilitates the Realization of Innovative Value" that was jointly organized by China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.
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In December 2014, Yang Xiong, then mayor of Shanghai, and Francis Gurry, then director-general of WIPO, jointly signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Development Cooperation in the Field of IP between the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and WIPO. The Shanghai International Intellectual Property Forum was then held for the first time.