The tenth China Intellectual Property Annual Conference (CIPAC2019) will be held in Hangzhou on September 2nd. The theme of this annual conference is "Intellectual Property and the Times".

This annual meeting is hosted by Intellectual Property Publishing House Co., Ltd. and undertaken by the Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. Representatives from government departments such as the State Intellectual Property Office, international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), embassies in China, judicial organs, colleges and universities, industry associations, and well-known enterprises will gather in Hangzhou to discuss plans for the development of intellectual property .

This year's annual meeting will present four highlights: First, higher specifications. Leaders of the State Intellectual Property Office, Zhejiang Province, and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government will attend the annual meeting and make speeches. The Assistant Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of Vietnam, the founder of China-Europe Forum and other government agencies and industry associations will deliver keynote speeches. The second is wider content. For the first time, this annual meeting was upgraded from a patent annual meeting to an intellectual property rights annual meeting. In addition to patents, the content of the discussion included trademarks, geographical indications and other contents for the first time. The topics are more extensive, covering the ecological chain of intellectual property operations under economic globalization, artificial intelligence 2.0 and intellectual property, trademark management strategies and brand value realization, international trade and intellectual property rights overseas protection, commercial operation of geographical indications in global trade, Intellectual property rights support regional economic integration and other hot spots. The third is more forms. The annual meeting will focus on the theme, and hold a series of activities such as opening ceremony and keynote speech, 15 forums, 8000 square meters of exhibition display, round table discussion, press conference, etc., which will attract more than 10,000 participants from more than 40 countries and regions on 5 continents Representative. In addition to more than 140 high-end speakers from well-known domestic and foreign companies, government leaders from innovative demonstration cities of intellectual property operation systems were invited to give lectures and share experiences. The fourth is to show updates. In addition to the patent information services and product exhibitions in previous years, the exhibition area will also include a trademark exhibition and a Chinese geographical indication exhibition with the theme of "big land, rich resources, new innovations". Among them, the Chinese geographical indication exhibition selects more than ten representative provinces, The city (autonomous region), as well as the two counties that actively use geographical indications, Sangzhi and Chongli, jointly demonstrate the achievements of the protection and use of geographical indications in China.

It is understood that since the 2010 China Patent Information Annual Conference (predecessor of CIPAC) was held for the first time, the China Intellectual Property Annual Conference has been successfully held for nine sessions, from the first annual conference of hundreds of people to the ninth annual conference in 2018 The number of participants has exceeded 10,000. After 9 years of development, the content of the annual meeting has continued to expand, and the scale of the meeting has gradually expanded. It has become an intellectual property sharing and exchange platform with international influence.