The 10th China Intellectual Property Annual Conference (CIPAC) takes place on 2-3 September in Hangzhou. Directed by the National Intellectual Property Administration of China (CNIPA) and organised by the Intellectual Property Publishing House (IPPH), CIPAC is the largest and most influential IP conference in China. IP Key China Project Leader, Benoit MISONNE delivers his intervention at the session of “Intellectual Property Empowers Regional Economic Integration” on the importance of regional and international IP cooperation to ensure sustainable competitiveness. [...]
The Workshops and Study Visits for SPP Prosecutors in Europe was organised and supported by IP Key China. [...]
On 22-23 April 2019, IP Key together with the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural affairs (MARA) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA), in cooperation with UPOV, co-organised seminars successfully in Beijing. [...]
Wednesday, 23 January, IP Key China held its 2019 Annual Appreciation Dinner at the TRB Copper to gather EU and Chinese stakeholders. During Dinner, Ulrich Weigl, Head of Trade Section to the Delegation of the European Union to China, and Jiang Chenghua, Deputy Director General of the Department of Treaty and Law of the PRC Ministry of Commerce, gave a speech to celebrate the past cooperation and mark the beginning of a new year. Mr. Weigl announced that the IP Key China 2019 Annual Work Plan was approved and thanked all partners for their contributions and support. [...]
IP Key China partnered with the Law School of South China University of Technology to hold an IP Café, part of a series of events from IP Key China, entitled IPR PROTECTION FOR THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY. EU copyright experts and academics from the Law School had a lively discussion on the complex issue. Presentations from both sides looked at circumvention of copyright laws, music in games, broadcasting issues and authorship versus ownership rights. [...]
From 17 to 18 December 2018, IP Key China held the ROUNDTABLE ON COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AND LICENSING IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. The event was co-hosted by the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) and took place in Guangzhou, China. [...]
From 25 November to 4 December 2018, IP Key China travelled with a DDG delegation from China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC), Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Nanjing IP Courts, for judicial exchanges in Brussels, Luxembourg and Munich. [...]
22 November marked a new stage in the development of the EU-China IP Academic Network (EUCIPAN), an initiative of IP Key China to support exchange between EU and Chinese universities specialising in intellectual property. The Third EU-China IP Academic Forum, hosted by Fudan University Law School, brought together over a hundred professors, researchers and students to join the discussions and shape the future of IP research cooperation. [...]
IP Key China cooperated with CAASA (China Anti-infringement and Anti-counterfeiting Innovation Strategic Alliance) in the organisation of the 2018 EU-China Conference on IPR Protection Online and Innovation, which took place at Xiamen International Conference Centre (Fujian province) between 3-5 November 2018. [...]
The 20th EU-China Summit was held on 16 July 2018. H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, and H.E. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, met in Beijing for the Summit. [...]