Four PRC Attorneys-at-law at Beijing East IP Law Firm were appointed respectively to the Patent Law Committee, the Trademark Law Committee, the Copyright Law Committee, and the Competition and Anti-Trust Law Committee of the 10th Specialized Committees at Beijing Lawyers Association.

On 8 October, 2015, the “EU-CHINA PATENT DIALOGUE——China Patent System Workshop” was successfully held in Lyon, France by Beijing East IP Ltd. and Gaolulin Foundation. As a nongovernmental activity for the celebration of 30 years cooperation between the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China and the European Patent Office (EPO), this workshop was guided by both SIPO and EPO, and was...

In the recent election for the 2016-2017 Committee Term at INTA (International Trademark Association) in September 2015, three trademark attorneys at Beijing East IP Law Firm / Beijing East IP Ltd. were appointed to various committees for the 2016-2017 committee term at INTA. Mr. Jason WANG, partner, attorney-at-law, trademark attorney at Beijing East IP Law Firm was appointed to serve the Enfo...

On September 17, Dr. Lulin GAO, Beijing East IP’s Chairman, was awarded the China Law & Practice Outstanding Achievement Award for his impressive contributions to China’s intellectual property law system, especially in the patent regime.

Mr. Jason WANG and Ms. Yan ZHANG, partners at Beijing East IP Law Firm, recently published an article titled “Judgment on Identical and Similar Goods and Services Related to Real Estate” on the China Trademark magazine (Issue 7, 2015). The China Trademark magazine is a monthly magazine supervised under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC, who oversees Chinese Trademark Offi...

Professor Mary Nagel of the John Marshall Law School (JMLS) visited the headquarters of Beijing East IP in Beijing to present U.S. civil procedures.

On July 4th, Dr. Lulin GAO was invited by Yuejiao ZHANG, China’s first woman justice of Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to chair the TRIPs Panel for the WTO at 20: Multilateral Trading System, Dispute Settlement and Developing Countries Conference held in Tsinghua University, Beijing.

On June 5, 2015, the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) and Beijing East IP Ltd. co-hosted the second international seminar in the meeting room of IIP in Tokyo. This seminar was moderated by Mr. Kawamata Hiroshi, the Deputy Director of IIP. Dr. Xiaodong LI, General Manager of Beijing East IP Ltd. delivered an opening speech as representative of the host at the opening of the seminar. More...

On June 5, 2015, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Online Dispute Resolution Center (CIETAC ODRC) and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (ADNDRC) co-hosted the “Online Dispute Resolution in the Internet-Plus Era” seminar in Beijing. More than 170 representatives of judges, scholars, attorneys at law, trademark attorneys, domain name registrants, and corporate representatives from China, South Korea, Malaysia, Spain, France, and Hong Kong attended the seminar. Associate Director and Secretary-General Jianlong YU of CIETAC delivered the welcome remarks representing the host. Associated Director Lin QI of CNNIC and Director Zheng SONG of ICCAN Beijing Cooperation Center also delivered opening speech.

On June 5, 2015, the final round of “the 6th Zhi Chan Li Cup”Beijing Universities Law Major Debate Competition was held in the renowned Renmin University of China. As the final teams, Beijing Normal University and Renmin University of China debated on “Whether Ideas Can be protected under the Copyright Law.” Beijing Normal University came out on top. Zhi Chan Li (http://www.zhichanli.com/), a f...