[Corporate Pulse] CANTOOP Joins WIPO Global Service System Training Program

2025-05-14

On May 8, 2025, the "2025 WIPO Global Service System Effective Use Training Course", jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Office in China, and undertaken by the Pudong New Area Intellectual Property Office and the Pudong New Area Intellectual Property Protection Center, was successfully held in the Yangtze Hall of the Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel. As a representative enterprise in the field of intellectual property services, Cairtopo Intellectual Property Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. actively participated in the training and discussed the cutting-edge trends and practical strategies of international intellectual property rules with more than 100 participants from government departments, enterprises and professional institutions.

Yu Chen, Deputy Director General of Shanghai Municipal Intellectual Property Office

At the beginning of the event, Yu Chen, Deputy Director General of Shanghai Intellectual Property Office, emphasized in his opening speech that with the acceleration of global economic integration, intellectual property has become a core element for enterprises to participate in international competition. He called on all sectors to make full use of WIPO's global service system to enhance the layout and protection of cross-border intellectual property rights, and help Shanghai build an international intellectual property protection highland.

Guoqiang Lu, Head of the Shanghai Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the World Intellectual Property Organization

In his speech, Mr. Lu Guoqiang, Head of WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Shanghai Center, reviewed the major breakthroughs in the field of international intellectual property in the past year, including the birth of the Convention on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources and the Leyard Convention under the Hague Agreement on Designs, which expanded the number of international treaties administered by WIPO to 28, marking a new stage in global intellectual property governance. He also highlighted the challenges posed by AI technology to the IP system, noting that WIPO had issued two guides for IP offices and enterprises in various countries, and revealed that China ranked among the top in the world in terms of the number of international patent applications under the PCT, the Hague System and the number of Madrid trademark registrations, and had become an important contributor to WIPO's service system.

He Ying, Deputy Director General of Pudong New Area Intellectual Property Office

He Ying, Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property Office of Pudong New Area, shared the achievements of Pudong's reform in the field of intellectual property: by the end of 2024, Pudong will have 97 high-value invention patents per 10,000 people, more than 7,000 trademarks, and nearly half of the city's PCT international patent applications. She said that Pudong will continue to optimize the business environment for intellectual property and support enterprises to participate in international competition through the WIPO system.

In the special lecture session, Lu Guoqiang, head of the Shanghai Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the World Intellectual Property Organization, gave an in-depth analysis of the international intellectual property dispute resolution mechanism. Combined with the Provisions on the Settlement of Foreign-related Intellectual Property Disputes newly promulgated by the State Council, he pointed out that the regulations have built a full-chain foreign-related protection system for the first time, which is a milestone for national security, data security and cross-border rights protection of enterprises. In view of the pain points of foreign-related disputes, such as the complex application of law and the difficulty of enforcement, he introduced in detail the efficiency and flexibility of WIPO's arbitration and mediation services, emphasizing that their "non-profit" characteristics can save litigation costs for enterprises.

Director of the International Application Examination Division of the Design Examination Department of the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office, and the second-level inspector

Liu Yue

Examiner and third-level researcher of the first international application of the Preliminary Examination and Process Management Department of the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office

Pan Wenjuan

Liu Yue and Pan Wenjuan, experts from the State Intellectual Property Office, respectively gave practical guidance on industrial designs, the Hague System and PCT international patent applications. Through case analysis, Liu Yue revealed the advantages of "one table and multiple countries" registration in the Hague System, and reminded enterprises to pay attention to the examination nodes and refusal response strategies in international procedures. Pan Wenjuan systematically sorted out the key points of the whole process management of PCT applications, from the use of priority rights, the interpretation of international search reports to the layout of the national phase, providing an operational path for enterprises to formulate global patent strategies.

Representatives of Cairtopo said that the training closely combined the evolution of international rules and the practical needs of enterprises, especially in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence intellectual property protection and cross-border dispute resolution, and gained forward-looking insights. As a professional institution that has been deeply engaged in intellectual property services for many years, Cairtopo will continue to track the dynamics of the WIPO system, rely on the international service platform built in Pudong New Area, and provide enterprises with full life cycle services from international registration, risk early warning to dispute resolution, and help more Chinese innovation achievements to achieve value transformation in the global market. The training not only demonstrated Shanghai's leading role as an international hub city for intellectual property, but also injected strong momentum into the in-depth participation of Chinese enterprises in global innovation cooperation.