China Intellectual Property Business
I've been looking forward to this week's trip to Asia, where I'll be getting together with other speakers at the first IP transaction focused conference in China. Marshall Phelps, Corporate VP for IP Policy and Strategy at Microsoft, Joff Wild, Editor of IAM Magazine, and Duncan Bucknell, CEO, IP Strategist, Lawyer & Patent Attorney, coincidentally our featured guest blogger here on IP.com's corporate blog, Securing Innovation, are among the global IP leaders speaking at this conference.
China Intellectual Property Business 2009 ("CIPB 2009") is organized by Global Leaders Institute, which issued a press release today announcing the conference. It will take place on November 18-19, 2009 at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Hongqiao.
This conference is mainly focused on Intellectual Property transaction issues, including IP strategies, IP portfolio management, diversified IP transaction methods, IP valuation approaches and database applications.
Unlike other IP conferences focused on legal issues, this event deals more with the strategic concerns within a company rather than just protection issues. Not only are IP counsels and patent counsels being invited to this event, corporate CEOs, Vice Presidents and General Counsels are all expected to join this exciting conference.
Director of SIPA, Mr. Guoqiang Lv, will make the opening address for this event and deliver a presentation as the curtain raiser for CIPB 2009. Former Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Jiang Zhipei will also deliver a speech on the current IP business background, especially in China.
120 companies from different industries will join this event. Among them, this conference has gathered over 30 Global IP Leaders and IP Strategists to brainstorm the IP strategies and transaction issues in this booming China market, including, Philips IP&S, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Bosch, Sanofi-Aventis, Agilent Technologies, Alibaba, Alcatel Lucent Shanghai Bell, and TSMC. Leading Chinese firms will also present on site, including ZTE, BYD and TCL.
Thomson Reuters, IP.com, TechInsights, Finnegan, Property Corp. and RPX Corporation have engaged this event as its honored sponsors. Mr. David Liu, the Managing Director of China from Thomson Reuters will make a toast during the first day's lunch.
This conference is problem solution driven and each company who has the need to extract more value from their IP assets will find a suitable solution for them and find potential business partners either during the conference or after the conference. Hope to see you there.
You can log on the event website for more information: http://www.cipbusiness.com
If you're attending CIPB 2009, as well, or would like to get together while I'm in China, please contact me by email tcolson [at] ip.com either in advance or during the conference, and we'll set something up.
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