On November 17, the 8th China Patent Week with the theme of meeting the demands of company and serving innovation is held across the nation. This year's Patent Week is aimed to demonstrate the achievements that IP administrative nationwide made in IP creation, utilization, protection and management. It is also aimed to serve companies' innovation work and create a sound innovative environment by focusing on promotion plan of patent strategy, the implementation of IP standard and improving IP capability of small and medium companies. The 8th China Patent Week will focus on the following four special events. The first one is to promote enterprises to enhance IPR management capacity, and it will promote the connection between consulting services and the enterprises, increase the intellectual property management personnel training, and the implementation of relative national standards. The second is to help the enterprises to create competitive advantage of intellectual property rights. The third is to strengthen the utilization of intellectual property rights. Finally, the fourth is to strengthen IP special services for of small and micro enterprises. The event will make full use of all types of IP public service platform to increase innovation counselling, management consulting, investment and financing, personnel training, technological innovation and other services, and to guide IP services agencies’ fully participation in the improvement on IP services of small and medium enterprises. The gLAWcal team LIBEAC project Thursday, 20 November 2014 (Source: Intellectual Property Protection in China)