On March 12, 2014, the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) and Beijing East IP Ltd. co-hosted an international seminar in Japan-China Friendship Center in Tokyo, Japan. This seminar was hosted by Mr. Nari NAKASHIMA, the Deputy Director of IIP. Mr. XiaodongLI, General Manager ofBeijing East IP Ltd., and Mr. Yoichi OMORI, Executive Director of IIP, each delivered a speech as representatives of the host at the opening of the seminar.

On April 21, 2014, the Supreme Court published the list for China 2013 Top 50 Typical IP Cases, which includes civil, administrative, and criminal intellectual property lawsuits. Appellate case of abuse of market power, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. v. InterDitigal Corporation [Guangdong High Court Civil Judgment (2013) Yue Gao Fa Min San Zhong Zi No. 36] is listed as one of the 50 cases.

On April 21, 2014, the Supreme People’s Court published the list for China 2013 Top 10 Innovative IP Cases. These 10 IP cases are selected from nationwide courts decisions. Two trademarks cases are selected and both are trademark administrative lawsuits before the Supreme People’s Court.

On April 21, 2014, the Supreme Court published the list for Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases of China Courts in 2013, covering the civil lawsuits, the administrative lawsuits and the criminal lawsuits in the field of Intellectual Property.

On April 10, 2014, Beijing Eat IP organized a team to attend the AUTM Asia 2014 in Taipei. During the conference, many worldwide intellectual property experts discussed important issues in the field, including industry-academia collation, technology transfer, innovation creation, intangible property evaluation, high value patent, resolution of intellectual property disputes in litigation, arbitration, and mediation, recent breakthroughs in life science/agriculture technology, ICT, and creative industries.

The 2nd Seminar on Regulations on Unfair Competition on the Internet, jointly held by the Copyright Union of Internet Society of China, Beijing East IP Ltd. and K & L Gates LLP, was successfully held On April 15, 2014.

The TRAB (Trademark Review and Adjudication Board) comments on a typical trademark opposition appeal case involving the well-known mark of a worldwide well-known website on China Industry and Commerce News (newspaper hosted by SAIC – State Administration for Industry and Commerce, who oversees both Chinese Trademark Office and the TRAB).

Beijing East IP Ltd. will fund 2 million yuan in 2014, to create Gao Lulin Foundation in name of our Chairman, Dr. Lulin Gao. The Gao Lulin Foundation will support the research activities and award the outstanding talents in field of intellectual property, to help development of intellectual property community of China.

In January 2014, Patent Reexamination Board (PRB) issued a ruling favorable to a leading European company (the “Company” hereinafter) represented by Beijing East IP Ltd., rejecting a request for invalidation filed by a competitor of the Company.

Mr. Jason Wang, Partner at Beijing East IP Law Firm, recently published the Article The Conflict of Enterprise Name and Prior Trademark – Analysis on Article 58 of the new Chinese Trademark Law on Issue 12 of the 2013 China Trademark Magazine.