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The John Marshall Law School with the China Intellectual Property Training Center of SIPO are bringing together Sixth Annual Chinese Intellectual Property Forum: Future of Chinese Patent Landscape: Law/Regulation Updates; IP Monetization and Impact of ITC investigations.  We bring the most up-to-date information of IP in China to stakeholders on China IP issues from U.S. government, academics and enterprises to share their insights on critical issues involving China IP.  

[Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan]

Unfortunately, the program is cancelled due to the speaker not receiving timely travel approvals.  We will try to reschedule the program in 2017.

The first specialized IP court in Chinese was established in November of 2014 in Beijing.  Two others were shortly formed in Shanghai and Guangzhou.  These three specialized IP courts have somewhat changed the IP enforcement landscapes for Chinese domestic and foreign IP rights' holders.

While the US patent and innovative community is grapping with, and suffering from, the impact of Alice from SCOTUS since 2014, China has also been busy updating and refining its patent law.  Goals to improve utility model patents' quality (through some sort of substantive examination) and strengthening local SIPO enforcement powers are on the agenda, among other things.

[Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan]

President XI Jinping presided over a high level committee meeting on June 6 to decide action items including, among other things, "Framework Opinions of Certain Questions Regarding Pilot Reform of the Judicial System ," "Working Plan For Pilot Judiciary Reform of Shanghai," and "Regarding Working Plan For Establishing an Intellectual Property Court."¹  The committee passed motions to approve the three items above and has set subsequent time tables for further implementation details.² 

[Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan]