[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 Yuan]

In continuing the theme and goal of advancing practical knowledge of IP practice at the John Marshall Law School, the Chinese IP Resource Center is proud to announce and promote the following practical seminar on Chinese IP law practice, sponsored and hosted by Liu Shen & Associates from Beijing, China.  The seminar focuses and highlights many of the practical issues that US applicants face when filing in China or just considering doing businesses in China.