On September 29, 2014, Beijing East IP Ltd, Tongji Law School/IP Institute, and Beijing Wei-Heng Law Firm co-hosted a ceremony for signing a three-party strategic cooperation agreement, and a seminar of antimonopoly in the automobile field. Vice General Manager Dr. Jian LI of Beijing East IP presented at the signing ceremony.

In September 2014, the Gao Lulin Foundation created intellectual property related scholarship at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago to encourage students to learn and research in the intellectual property field. The Gao Lulin Foundation is sponsored by Beijing East IP with Chairman Dr. Lulin GAO’s name to create scholarship funds.

In September 2014, Chairman Dr. Lulin GAO was invited by the John Marshall Law School to accept an honorary doctor degree in law.

In September 2014, the Gao Lulin Foundation created the “Gao Lulin Intellectual Property Law Scholarship” at Tsinghua University School of Law to encourage the students to learn and research intellectual property law. The Gao Lulin Foundation is sponsored by Beijing East IP with Chairman Dr. Lulin GAO’s name to create scholarship funds.

On September 18, 2014, General Manager Dr. Xiaodong LI of Beijing East IP was invited to give a presentation at China Electronics Standardization Institute. The presentation was based on the association between standardization and patent.

2014, setup an exhibition booth, and exchanged views with intellectual property professionals from various fields about the last domestic and international patent information development and products. Moreover, many corporations were very interested in Beijing East IP’s Patent Analysis Department’s services.

From 2013 – 2014, Beijing East IP organized our own professionals to edit theChina Patent Case Review 2014 and the China Trademark Review 2014. These two books are written in English to facilitate and promote foreign corporation and law firms to better understand China patent and trademark examinations and practices.

In April 2014, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) announced the list for China Courts 2013 Top 10 Innovative IP Cases. These Top 10 Innovative IP Cases were selected from over one hundred thousand (100,000) decisions of nationwide courts in China rendered in 2013, which have significant and innovative contribution to application of the laws and regulations.

Mr. Jason WANG, partner at Beijing East IP Law Firm, published the article titled “Trademark Distinctiveness Affects the Determination on Bad Faith Filing” on the China Trademark magazine (Issue 8, 2014). The China Trademark magazine is a monthly magazine supervised under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC, who oversees Chinese Trademark Office and Trademark Review and Adjudication Board) and hosted by the China Trademark Association.

On August 15, 2014, Manager of the Electric Department patent attorney Qiang LIN was invited to JETRO’s Beijing representative office to give a presentation on “The Best Practice of Software Patent in China.” Based on his comparative research on various country’s patent law, Attorney Lin presented a detailed introduction for software patent protection history, current practices, latest case reviews, and heated debated topics based on his own experiences on representing multinationals’ cases. All of JETRO’s Beijing representative office’s patent professionals attended this seminar, occupied the entire conference room.