In close cooperation and consultation with one another, experts from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) and OHIM are jointly undertaking a technical feasibility study examining the potential integration of SAIC's trademark data into TMview.
The integration of design data from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) into OHIM's Designview database is being carried out as part of the IP Key Yearly Action Plan for 2014.
IP Key conducted a training session to members of the press to inform them on new trends and challenges in developing and enforcing the copyright law in todays digital world where technology is often moving much faster than the law.
Building on the outcome of the study visits conducted earlier in May (see relevant summary report for additional information), IP Key and the Legislative Affairs Commission at the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (LAC) held a follow up experts’ roundtable at the Conference Center of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, to address – mainly from an academic perspective - a range of copyright-related topics relevant for the current legislative reform.
IP Key invited academics from UK and Germany as well as DG Trade to join as key speakers for this purpose.
IP Key’s Yearly Action Plan (YAP) for 2014 was endorsed by its respective management boards.
Benoît Misonne and Dan Prud'homme write in the Journal of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (Eurobiz) that European businesses should keep up with China’s changing IP landscape in 2014 and discuss how IP Key can help.
Dan Prud'homme of the IP Key Team is quoted in Managing Intellectual Property (MIP)'s January 24th 2014 article entitled "SIPO issues guidance on FRAND commitments in national standards".
On the occasion of the Official Launch of the New EU-China Activity-Based Cooperation in Intellectual Property in Beijing on 16 January 2014, IP Key convened a meeting with representatives of European industry and European Union Member States with the participation of Mr. AntónioCampinos, President of the European Union Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), implementing agency of the IP Key.
Davide Follador of the IP Key Team delivered a keynote speech on "Doing Business in China. Major IP Issues for European and Italian Companies" at a business forum held in Beijing on January 13, 2014.
Dan Prud’homme of the IP Key Team moderated a panel discussion on the "The Future of the Utility Model System" at an all-day seminar on utility model patents on December 11, 2013.