Sino-African Intellectual Property Forum Successfully Concluded

The First Sino-African Intellectual Property Forum, jointly organized by the World Intellectual Property organization (WIPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People’s Republic of China, was successfully concluded in Beijing on May 22,2002. Senior officials from WIPO, the African Intellectual Property Organization (French abbreviation: OAPI. OAPI, Organisation Africaine de la Propriete Intellectuelle), the African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) and 16 African countries and nearly 100 Chinese participants attended the two-day forum.