Shanghai will improve its intellectual property work with a series of efforts to build itself into an IP hub for the Asia-Pacific region, said the top official of the municipality's IP administration.
"So far, Shanghai has been actively working on developing itself into a technology and innovation center with global impact, in which IP plays a very important part," said Lu Guoqiang, director of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration.
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Asia is emerging as a new hotbed for IP activities," said Leon Yee, managing director of international law firm Duane Morris & Selvam LLP in Shanghai. "Now East Asia has overtaken North America and West Europe in the number of applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which is used for the filing of patents in multiple jurisdictions.
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