Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

Delegation from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People's Republic of China visit CCLS

22 October 2014


Pictured with the SIPO delegation from China are, from left to right: Catherine Wolfe, Christine Zhou, Dr Bernard Schneider, Lee Davies, Professor Uma Suthersanen, Professor Duncan Matthews, Professor Spyros Maniatis, and Gwilym Roberts.

A high-level delegation from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the Peoples' Republic of China visited Queen Mary University of London's Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) on Friday 10 October to discuss Intellectual Property education and international cooperation. 

The meeting was also attended by Gwilym Roberts (Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, CIPA), Lee Davies (Chief Executive of CIPA) and Catherine Wolfe (former President of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, ITMA), who explained the importance to the professions of the education and training opportunities for patent and trade mark attorneys provided by CCLS.