On September 15, 2003, more than 400 government officials, experts and scholars from judicial, scientific and technological, intellectual property, industrial and commercial departments came to Babaoshan to see him off.
Liu Gushu has made outstanding contributions to the establishment of intellectual property system in China, especially the establishment and development of patent agency system in China. For more than 20 years, he has witnessed the development of intellectual property rights in China. When China people didn't know the word "intellectual property", he was one of the people who advocated the establishment of a patent system in China. Opponents once wrote to Deng Xiaoping: "Whoever advocates the establishment of a patent system is a traitor."
Liu Gushu is one of the earliest intellectual property lawyers in China. He founded China Patent Agency (Hongkong) Co., Ltd. and was the founder of China Patent Agents Association. Liu Gushu devoted a lot of efforts to the implementation of the patent law and the development of patent agency in China, and won a high reputation and wide respect. At present, Liushen Intellectual Property Co., Ltd., a well-known intellectual property company in China, is "Liu" in this name. People's evaluation of him is "brave in innovation, diligent in thinking, brave in practice and hard-working".
A sentence that scholar Liu Gu once said to his son was widely quoted by the media in 2003 and became a classic: "A person has two things that no one can take away, one is knowledge and the other is credibility." His son is Liu Chuanzhi of Lenovo Group.