24/11/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Patent Office (EPO) announced on Thursday 23 November that, at a high-level meeting in Zhengzhou, it had signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement with China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). EPO President Benoit Battistelli and his Chinese counterpart Shen Changyu underlined that this unique agreement reinforces a historic co-operation dating back more than 30 years. The comprehensive strategic partnership sets out the...