IP Key China, in partnership with the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), supported by the Delegation of the European Union to China and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), organised the Seminar on the Latest Developments in the Field of Trade Marks on 16 March 2022.

In business, politics and society as a whole, we can only reach our full potential if we use all of our diversity. Using only half of the population, half of the ideas is not good enough. International Women’s Day is a chance to celebrate achievements and look at the road ahead. We still have a long way to go: statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) show that, women’s share in international patent applications was 16.5% in 2021. Women inventors matter, unfortunately inequalities persist.