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Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights: Keynote Speaker and Panel Discussion

Time: 9:00am-3:30pm
Date: March 12,2012
Venue: China World Hotel, No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District (中国大饭店, 朝阳区建国门外大街1号)

Member Fee: 1000 CNY
Non-member Fee: 1200 CNY

What is shanzhai (山寨) and how is it related to Chinese innovation? How should you interpret China’s patenting statistics? What are the government initiatives underway to improve China’s intellectual property (IP) rights protection and how will they affect business? What is the pathway forward for cooperation and engagement between the US and China?

USITO, AmCham China, and the Fordham University Law School are pleased to invite you to this conference -- the last event in a series of IP and innovation roundtables -- where we will answer the questions above, review the most recent developments regarding IP and innovation in China, and provide an outlook on US-China cooperation in IP.

We are pleased to announce the event’s keynote speaker, Judge Denny Chin. He was sworn in as United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit on April 26, 2010. Judge Chin presided over some well-known cases, including but not limited to the 150-year sentence to financier Bernard L. Madoff for his Ponzi Scheme, and the Google Book settlement case. Judge Chin graduated from Princeton University and received his law degree from Fordham Law School. Judge Chin was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US at the age of two. He is currently the only Asian-American judge active on the appeals court.

Come with questions or suggestions for senior US and China officials and leading experts. This conference offers an ideal learning and networking opportunity. Speakers and panelists include:

  • Anthony Chen, Partner, Intellectual Property, Jones Day
  • Judge Denny Chin, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • Mark Cohen, Fordham University School of Law
  • Tom Duke, IP Attaché, UK Embassy
  • Jiang Fei, Director for the Department of Communication, CASS; author of ‘China Shanzhai Culture Studies’
  • Dr. Gao Lulin, Chairman, East IP Law Firm; former Commissioner, SIPO
  • Prof. Guo Shoukang, Renmin University School of Law
  • Nancy Kremers, IP Attaché, US Embassy in Beijing
  • David Liu, Managing Director, Healthcare & Science, Thomson Reuters China
  • James McGregor Senior Advisor, APCO; author of ‘China’s Drive for Indigenous Innovation’
  • Chris Murck, President, AmCham China
  • Matt Roberts, President of USITO
  • Ulrike Tagscherer, Associate Professor at the Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Dr. Wang Qi, Assistant Researcher, Intellectual Property Research Development Center
  • Robert Wang, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy
  • Conrad Wong, IP Officer, US Consulate in Guangzhou
  • Chief Judge Kong Xiangjun, Supreme People’s Court of China, IP Tribunal (invited)
  • Liu Xielin, Professor in Innovation Study, Associate Dean, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yang Guohua, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Commerce
  • Dr. Zheng Liang, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zhang Yan, Senior Counsel, IBM Asia Pacific GMU IP Law