Tian Lipu, Director of China's State Intellectual Property Office, led a delegation to visit the Austrian Patent Office and attended the mixed committee meeting with the Austrian Director, Friedrich Lv Dele in Vienna. After the meeting, the two parties signed the Sino-Austrian Joint Statement of Expressway Review and Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation of China and Austrian Offices.

At the meeting, Tian Lipu and Friedrich Lvde Le exchanged their opinions extentively on bilateral cooperation such as the construction of review expressway by two offices, inspector training, patent information services, corporate intellectual property exchanges and mutual visits, and the cooperation program between the two offices in 2013.