SIPO head: Improve IP to compete

Bottleneck in getting innovation from the lab to the factory floor

Chinese companies need to improve their capacity in creation, application, protection and management of intellectual property to sharpen their core competitiveness, Tian Lipu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), said at an annual conference held recently in Beijing.

"To shift away from energy intensive, heavily polluting and high-risk development is not only our international responsibility in the face of climate change, but also the requirements for China's own development," Tian noted.