Upgraded from the "China Patent Annual Meeting" to the "China Intellectual Property Annual Meeting", the focus of the annual meeting enhanced to new developments and changes in the entire IP industry. China IP reporters at the scene experienced the "upgrades" in four aspects:

The first is the upgrade of topic. After nine years of accumulation and precipitation, the 10th CIPAC discussed a wider range of topics, and immediately follow the hot topics of the industry. In addition to patents, the contents of the seminars also included trademarks, geographical indications and such for the first time, covering the IP operation ecological chain under economic globalization, artificial intelligence 2.0 and IPRs, trademark management strategy and brand value realization, release of IP products and services, international trade and overseas IPRs protection,commercial operation of geographical indications in global trade, IPRs as a support to the development of regional economic integration and other hot topics. A total of 15 forums were held in two days around the relevant topics.

The second is the upgrade of scale. From the 1st annual meeting of more than 600 people to the 10th annual meeting from 5 continents, more than 40 countries and regions with over 13,000 attendees, the overall number of participants and the scale increased with leaders from CNIPA, Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government attending and delivering speeches, and a group of government leaders from the innovation demonstration cities of the IP operating system also giving speeches and sharing experience. In addition, CIPAC attracted the active participation of representatives from WIPO, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Viet Nam, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts of Cambodia, Europe-China Forum and other national or  international IP government agencies, as well as representatives from well-known domestic and foreign enterprises such as Aux, Qualcomm and Alibaba.

The third is the upgrade of activities. CIPAC closely focused on the theme of "IP, Evolving with the New Era", held opening ceremony and keynote speeches, with round-table discussions, product and service release, and 15 forums. The success of the series of activities could not be separated from the behind-the-scenes preparation team, from the pre-meeting schedule, the invitation of guests, to the order, security, guidance, coordination of the meeting venue for more than 10,000 guests, to guest feedback, information collection after the meeting, all revealing the overall excellent execution of the CIPAC team.

The fourth is upgrade of exhibition. In addition to patent information services and product display from previous years, this year's exhibition also included trademark exhibition and the exhibition of Chinese geographical indications. The latter selected more than a dozen representative provinces, municipalities (autonomous regions) and counties in China to jointly display the rich achievements of the protection and use of Chinese geographical indications.

Comply with the new era and keep up with expectations. After the rich and exciting schedule, on the afternoon of September 3, the annual meeting was successfully concluded. Since the 1st China Patent Annual Conference was held for the first time in 2010, CIPAC has been successfully held ten times in the spirit of "sharing and witnessing growth". The 10th CIPAC is of great significance, not only providing an important platform for all parties to explore the key issues and difficulties in the IP field, but also strengthening exchanges and cooperation between domestic and foreign IP industry, and better exerting IP's important role in stimulating innovation and promoting opening up to the outside world.