State Intellectual Property Office

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The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), better known as the Chinese Patent Office, is the patent office of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was founded on 1980, as the Patent Office of the People's Republic of China, the predecessor of SIPO. ^[1] It is responsible "for patent work and comprehensively coordination of the foreign related affairs in the field of intellectual property". ^[2]

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^ www.sipo.gov.cn, History, 2002-03-05. Consulted on April 26, 2007.
^ www.sipo.gov.cn, Responsibilities of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), 2002-04-27. Consulted on April 26, 2007.

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(Chinese) Official site
(English) Official site
- English search functions on the Experimental Platform of Patent Information Services (official search service on Chinese patents) - see also: Searching in databases - China (European Patent Office web site)

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