Dalian Trade Fair: Four "firsts" to promote patent transactions

From November 11th to 13th, the 12th China International Patent Technology and Product Fair, co-sponsored by the National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC and the People's Government of Liaoning Province, will be held in Dalian, Liaoning Province. The biggest highlights of this Fair are the four "firsts", namely, the first time that the China Patent Award Presentation Conference was held at the same time, the first to build an online and offline integrated platform for the fair, the first China Intellectual Property Dalian Summit Forum, and the first to build the fair’s offline exhibition area, which will help accelerate patent transfer and transformation.

On November 2, CNIPA held a press briefing in Beijing. Lei Xiaoyun, Director of the Department of Intellectual Property Utilization and Promotion of CNIPA, introduced that the Fair, with the theme of "Intellectual Property Leading the High-quality Economic Development", will mainly be online exhibitions. Series of online and offline activities such as Patent Awards Conferences, exhibitions, forum activities, roadshows and docking; organize high-level professional audience teams such as industry procurement groups, local procurement groups, financial investment groups, and expert service groups to build whole-process, full-chain projects docking transaction service system online to promote the docking of intellectual property rights with the market, capital, talents, services and other factors, and accelerates the transformation of intellectual property rights.