Release of major IP events, cases and influential figures in 2012
April 23
Beijing
Organizers: the State Intellectual Property Office, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the National Copyright Administration
Release of annual IP case report
April 23
Beijing
Organizer: The Supreme People's Court
Meeting with foreign institutes and companies on the latest IP developments in China
April 24
Beijing
Organizer: SIPO
Investigation and research on stage art copyright issues
April 23-24
Beijing
Organizer: the Ministry of Culture
Release of China's IP development report for 2012
April 25
Beijing
Organizers: SIPO, SAIC and NCA
Training on IP management for innovation-driven firms
April 26-28
Chongqing
Organizers: the Ministry of Science and Technology and the World Intellectual Property Organization
Public destruction of counterfeits
March-May
Nationwide
Organizer: the Ministry of Public Security
Legal training
April 19-26
Nationwide
Organizer: the Ministry of Justice
Seminar on international trends in new plant varieties
April 25
Beijing
Organizer: the Ministry of Agriculture
Open house
April 26
Beijing
Organizer: SIPO
Lectures on patent documentation related to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
April 26
Beijing
Organizer: SIPO
Release of the annual forestry IP report
April 19-26
Beijing
Organizer: the State Forestry Administration
Training on medicine innovation and IP protection
Second half of April
Nationwide
Organizer: the Ministry of Health
Release of annual trademark strategy development report 2012
April
Beijing
Organizer: SAIC
Release on IP customs protection in 2012
April
Beijing
Organizer: the General Administration of Customs
'Green Bookmark'
April 1-26
Nationwide
Organizer: NCA
Promotional event about developing and using patent information
April 26
Guangzhou
Organizer: the China Association for Science and Technology
(China Daily 04/24/2013 page17)
