The 2013 AIPPI Trilateral Meeting was successfully held in Lijiang, China July 20, 2013 with more than 100 participants. Mr. Tian Lipu, Commissioner of SIPO and President of AIPPI China, and Mr. Yu Ping, Vice-President of CCPIT and Vice-President of AIPPI China jointly welcome the speakers and attendees with Eiji Katayama, President of AIPPI Japan, Seong-ki Kim, President of AIPPI Korea, and Stephen Freischem, Secretary General of AIPPI. This is the 11th Trilateral Meeting co-sponsored by the Groups of AIPPI China, Japan and Korea, which is undertaken annually by one National Group in turn.

Mrs. Yazhuo Qian, patent attorney from the firm gave presentation on “Comparison of three countries in utility model patent system” on behalf of the Chinese Group. Firm president and vice president of AIPPI China Hao Ma expressed his gratitude to the secretariat of AIPPI China for their excellent organization work in his closing remarks, and encouraged the participants to come to China in 2015 for the next Trilateral Meeting in China.