On November 27, the 26th meeting of directors of intellectual property offices of China and South Korea was held by video. Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office of China, and Jin long, director of the South Korean licensing department, attended the meeting.

Shen Changyu said that the South Korean licensing office is an important partner of China's State Intellectual Property Office. Over the years, the two sides have had extensive exchanges in various fields of intellectual property and achieved fruitful cooperation results. At the same time, in-depth cooperation has also been carried out under the cooperation framework of China Japan South Korea Third Bureau and China US Europe Japan South Korea fifth Bureau. During the novel coronavirus pneumonia, the two countries actively coordinated and promoted the development of bilateral cooperation projects. It is hoped that in the future, the two sides will continue to strengthen communication and exchanges, expand practical cooperation areas, and push China ROK intellectual property cooperation into a new stage of development.

Jin longlai said that with the joint efforts of both sides, the South Korean licensing office and the State Intellectual Property Office of China have carried out very close cooperation in various fields of intellectual property. It is hoped that the two bureaux will continue to deepen cooperation in various fields and make positive contributions to the development of the global intellectual property system.

At the meeting, the two sides reviewed the cooperation between the two bureaus in patent examination, trademark, automation, intellectual property protection, reexamination and other fields in the past year, and exchanged views on promoting the pilot project of joint search, the China South Korea trademark expert meeting, the China South Korea reexamination agency meeting and other topics. The two sides also discussed how to strengthen cooperation and exchanges in the field of artificial intelligence and other new technologies, and made clear the next cooperation direction of the two bureaus. The two sides confirmed that the next meeting of directors of intellectual property offices of China and South Korea will be held by the State Intellectual Property Office of China in 2021.

After the meeting, the two sides signed the minutes of the 26th meeting of directors of the two bureaux of China and South Korea.