DIP attends Symposium on Intellectual Property in Beijing

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The Director of Intellectual Property, Mr Stephen Selby, will attend and speak at a three-day symposium on intellectual property (IP) to be held between tomorrow (April 12) and April 14 in Beijing.

The opening ceremony will be officiated by the Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), Md Jiang Ying; Mr Selby; the Deputy Secretary of the Economic Bureau of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR), Mr Tai Kin-yip.

The Mainland-Hong Kong SAR IP Symposium 2000 is being jointly organised by the SIPO and the SAR's Intellectual Property Department. Officials from the Macau SAR will also speak at this symposium.

A spokesman for the Intellectual Property Department said today (April 11): "This symposium is the first one ever held among official IP organisations in the Mainland and the two SARs since the transfer of sovereignty of both SARs and the recent renaming of the SIPO."

"The aims of the symposium are to update, compare and contrast, and to forecast development in the laws, policy, acquisition of rights and dispute settlement relating to IP in the Mainland and the HKSAR."

"Participants in the symposium will explore how IP systems in the Mainland and the HKSAR impact on different enterprises," the spokesman said.

"They will also explore how different enterprises could maximise the economic exploitation of their IP assets under the IP protection systems in the Mainland and the HKSAR," he added.

Mr Selby will give an update on Hong Kong's IP public education, while Deputy Director Mr Peter Cheung, and Assistant Directors, Mrs Teresa Grant; Mr Rayman Perera; and Mr Kestutis Stasys Kripas, will speak on various themes.

Two of the panelists from the legal profession are Judge Cheng Yongshun of the Beijing High People's Court and Mr Justice Anthony Rogers of the HKSAR's Court of Appeal.

Day One of the symposium will cover topics on patent and design protection; trade mark protection; updates on copyright protection and IP dispute settlement.

The second day of the symposium will focus on the impact of IP and unfair competition laws on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The impact on Chinese medicine as an example will also be looked into.

The commercialisation and valuation of IP, as well as an update on IP public education will be themes for panel discussion on the third and final day.

Local participants in the symposium include lawyers, SME proprietors and operators, academics and government officials.

A detailed programme of the symposium to be held at the China IP Training Centre is set out in the Annex.

End/Tuesday, April 11, 2000

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Annex

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Mainland-HKSAR Intellectual Property Symposium 2000

April 12 - 14, 2000

China Intellectual Property Training Centre

Conference Programme

Day 1

April 12, 2000 (Wed)

09:30-09:50

Opening Remarks by Mr QIAO Dexi, Director-

General, International Cooperation

Department, SIPO

09:35-09:50

Welcoming Address

* Md JIANG Ying, Commissioner, SIPO

* Mr Stephen SELBY, Director of IP, HKSAR

* Mr TAI Kin-yip, Deputy Secretary, Economic Bureau,

Macau SAR

09:50-11:00

Theme 1 - What's new on patent and design protection

Moderator: Mr QIAO Dexi, Director-General,

International Cooperation

Department, SIPO

Panelists: (1) Mr YIN Xintian, Director-

General, Legal Affairs

Department, SIPO

(2) Mrs Teresa GRANT, Assistant

Director of IP, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

11:20-12:30

Theme 2 - What's new on Trade Mark Protection

Moderator: Mr HOU Lin, Director-General,

Trademark Office, SAIC

Panelists:(1) Md HOU Liye, Deputy Director-

General, Trademark Office, SAIC

(2) Mr Rayman PERERA, Assistant

Director of IP, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

14:00-15:20

Theme 3 - What's new on Copyright Protection

Moderator: Mr WANG Huapeng, Director-General,

Panelist: (1) Mr XU Chao, Deputy Director-

General, Copyright Department,

NCAC

(2) Mr Kestutis Stasys KRIPAS,

Assistant Director of IP, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

15:40-17:00

Theme 4 - Update on intellectual property

dispute settlement

Moderator: Mr JIANG Zhipei, Deputy Chief, IPR

Trial Division, Supreme People's

Court

Panelists: (1) Judge CHENG Yongshun, Beijing

High People's Court

(2) Mr Justice Anthony ROGERS,

Court of Appeal, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

Day 2

April 13, 2000 (Thu)

09:10-10:30

Theme 5 - How patents and designs impact on small and

medium-sized enterprises

Moderator : Mr C K KWONG, President, Asian Patent

Attorneys Association Hong Kong

Group, HKSAR

Panelists: (1) Mr XU Yiping, President of

Shanghai Patent and Trademark

Agency

(2) Mr Frank HOLLIDAY, Chartered

Patent Attorney, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

10:50-12:20

Theme 6 - How trade marks and unfair competition laws

impact on small and medium-sized enterprises

Moderator: Mr Graeme HALL, President, The Hong

Kong Institute of Trade Mark

Practitioners, HKSAR

Panelists: (1) Mr LIU Peizhi, Director-General,

Fair Trading Office, SAIC

(2) Ms Yvonne CHUA, Intellectual

Property Lawyer, HKSAR

(3) Ms Jeannie SMITH, Intellectual

Property Lawyer, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

14:00-15:20

Theme 7 - How copyright impacts on small and

medium- sized enterprises

Moderator: Mr Andrew LIAO, Senior Counsel, HKSAR

Panelists:(1) Dr Xie Hong, International Law

Department, Diplomatic Institute

(2) Mr XIN Guangwei, Deputy Director,

Information and Publicity

Division, NCAC

(3) Mr Malcolm BARNETT, Chairman,

CASH, HKSAR

(4) Ms Grace CHU, Intellectual

Property Lawyer, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

15:40-17:00

Theme 8 - How intellectual property impacts on

small and medium-sized enterprises: Taking Chinese

medicine as an example

Moderator: Mr Stephen SELBY, Director of IP,

HKSAR

Panelists:(1) Ms WANG Beiying, Director, Science

and Technology Department, The

State Administration of

Traditional Chinese Medicine

(2) Mr WANG Bing, Professor of Law

Institute, Tsinghua University

(3) Mr Peter KF CHEUNG, Deputy Director

of IP, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

Day 3

April 14, 2000 (Fri)

09:10-10:30

Theme 9 - Commercialisation and valuation of

intellectual property (Patents and Industrial Designs)

Moderator: Mr CHEUNG King-fung, Chairman, Hong

Kong Inventors Association, HKSAR

Panelists: (1) Mr HU Zuochao, Director-General,

Coordination and Management

Department, SIPO

(2) Mr LAW Hin-yeung, Vice Chairman,

Hong Kong Inventors Association,

HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

10:50-12:20

Theme 10 - Commercialisation and valuation of

intellectual property (Copyright and Trade Marks)

Moderator: Mr Jose COUTINHO, Head of IPD, Macau

SAR

Panelists: (1) Mr Peter KF CHEUNG, Deputy

Director of IP, HKSAR

(2) Mr Henry WHEARE, Intellectual

Property Lawyer, HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

14:00-15:20

Theme 11 - Update on intellectual property public

education

Moderator: Mr QIAO Dexi, Director-General,

International Cooperation

Department, SIPO

Panelists: (1) Mr DENG Jun, Deputy Director-

General, General Affairs

Department, SIPO

(2) Mr Stephen SELBY, Director of IP,

HKSAR

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor

15:40-17:00

Concluding Remarks

Moderator : Mr QIAO Dexi, Director-General,

International Cooperation

Department, SIPO

Panelists : All Moderators

Panel Discussion & Questions from the Floor