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On Thursday, 7 December 2017, IFIA and the Hong Kong Trade Develop-
ment Council (HKTDC), Hong Kong’s leading trade promotion agency signed IFIA AND HKTDC
a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote intellectual property
trade between IFIA member states and Hong Kong. SIGN MOU TO PROMOTE IP TRADE

The objective of this bilateral partnership is to leverage Hong Kong’s strategic
regional position as the international gateway for Chinese mainland compa-
nies and an intellectual property trading hub. IFIA‘s resources and knowledge
is used to expand and promote technology transfer on a global scale, to help
companies from Hong Kong and the mainland to look for IFIA member states’
licensable intellectual property.

HKTDC and IFIA intend to engage in extensive information exchange to keep
informed of the latest development of the intellectual property industry of
their respective regions. Furthermore, both parties intend to mutually pro-
mote the Asia IP Exchange maintained by the HKTDC.

Asia IP Exchange is a free online platform and database connecting users to
the global IP players from North America, Europe, the Chinese Mainland and
other parts of Asia. This user-friendly online IP portal covers four main cat-
egories including patent, trademark, copyright and registered designs. Users
can conduct targeted searches using the site’s Tag Cloud and they can see the
details of more than 25,000 tradable IP listings from around 20 countries and
regions and easily connect with the listing owners.

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