On November 27, President Benoît Battistelli and other 5 delegates from the European Patent Office (EPO) visited the Gaolulin Foundation in the company of Mr. WU Kai, Director General of the International Cooperation Department of the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO).

The Gaolulin Foundation was funded by Beijing East IP Ltd. in the name of our Chairman, Dr. Gao Lulin. This foundation intends to promote development of intellectual property industry in China through sponsoring IP research, IP study as well as academic seminars.

In the meeting, works of the Gaolulin Foundation in the past year was introduced to president Battistelli, including international IP seminars, IP research projects, books published, and scholarship and donation set up in universities in China and abroad. President Battistelli highly praised the work of the Gaolulin Foundation and suggested the foundation building up stable partnership with organizations in Europe in addition to SVIPLA in the United States and IIP in Japan. The Gaolulin Foundation will have better development in Europe with the support of EPO.

Group photo after the meeting: President Battistelli (Fifth from the left), Dr. Gao Lulin (Fifth from the right), Director Wu Kai (Third from the right)