On February 1, the 11^th Chinese Patent Award was unveiled in Beijing. 15 gold prizes and 170 outstanding prizes found their owners. Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Tian Lipu issued certificates to the winners.

Chinese Patent Gold Prizes were jointly issued by the SIPO and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Chinese Patent Outstanding Prizes were promulgated by the SIPO.

According to related principal of the SIPO, most of the rewarded projects were from such places with strong innovative capability and good IPR management as Beijing, Guangdong and Zhejiang; and a lot of rewarded projects were from communication and information industries and were well protected in intellectual property rights.

It is said that this prize appraisal was the first one since the implementation of National IPR Strategy Outline. The appraisal standards not only relied on patented technologies and innovation of the projects, but also the application during the course of market transformation. Since this year, the appraisal activity will be held once a year. [Chinese version is available on SIPO.gov.cn]