State Intellectual Property Office
The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), also 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. It is responsible "for patent work and comprehensively coordination of the foreign related affairs in the field of intellectual property".
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