On September 20, 2021, the 9th Russian-Chinese-Mongolian Intellectual Property Seminar was held via videoconference. The topic of this year’s seminar was “The latest developments of intellectual property system and trademark examination practice”.

The seminar was opened with welcoming remarks by Dr. Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, Mr. Grigory Ivliev, Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property and Mr. Enkhsukh Battumur, Director General of the Intellectual Property Office of Mongolia.

During the seminar, the speakers shared detailed information on recent developments in national legislation, novelties in trademark examination and relevant statistical information.

In addition, the representative of Rospatent highlighted the development of regional registration systems, namely the steps on establishing the system for registering the means of individualization of the Eurasian Economic Union and the launch of a regional system of industrial designs registration, which was established by the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention of September 9, 1994.

The next Russian-Chinese-Mongolian Intellectual Property Seminar is scheduled to be held in 2022 under the chairmanship of the Intellectual Property Office of Mongolia.