China National Intellectual Property Administration

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA; 国家知识产权局) is the patent and trademark 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.
Headquarters of the CNIPA
Patents granted to Chinese and foreign inventors between 2002 and 2013.

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," 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

References
  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. "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. 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.


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