APLI in Shaoxing and Beijing for Three Major Conferences (October 15-November 3, 1999; People's Republic of China)

    On October 15, 1999, Professor Andy Y. Sun, Executive Director of APLI, was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the 9^th Bi-annual Conference of the Intellectual Property Society of Chinese Universities, held in Shaoxing, China.  Three days later, Professor Sun was invited to Peking University in Beijing to offer an extended lecture for the Seminar on Copyright and Neighboring Right in the Digital Age, co-sponsored by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), the State Copyright Administration, and the recently established Center for the Study of Rule of Law at the Peking University.  He spoke on the topic: Trends and Analyses of Computer Software Protection in the United States, which, in fact, covered copyright, patent and trade secrets protection. More than 90 copyright legal professionals, national and local Copyright Administration senior officials, Peking University law school faculty members and graduate students attended the seminar.

    [Complete lecture presentation (68 slides; bilingual, but mostly in Chinese.  Note: You need to use the Microsoft Explorer browser, v. 5.0 or later to view the slides )]

    In collaboration with the Intellectual Property Society of Chinese Universities, the Asia Pacific Legal Institute sponsored a National Intellectual Property Thesis Competition Award in China. This year the competition received a total of 72 submissions and a panel consists of 10 renowned legal scholars from China and the United States was formed to review the papers.  Winners of the competition were announced on October 16, 1999 at the 9^th Bi-annual Conference of the Intellectual Property Society of Chinese Universities in Shaoxing, China and were invited to give their presentations to the audience.  Professor Zhang Naigen of Fudan University (Shanghai) won the first prize (On Intellectual Property and Its Coordination in Electronic Commerce), Professor Zhang Ping of Peking University (Beijing) scored second (Variation on Legal Characteristics of Traditional Intellectual Property in the Environment of Computer Networks), and Professor Wang Daochang of Shangdong University (Jinan City, Shangdong) ranked the third (Questions on the Cause of Action against the Patent Management Agency Out of An Administrative Mediation Process).  These articles will be published on this site soon, first in their original Chinese text and then be translated into English.

    Separately, from October 31 to November 3, 1999, the 3^rd Cross-Strait Intellectual Property Academic Exchanges Conference was held in Beijing.  Professor Paul C. B. Liu, President of APLI and Director of Institute of Technology and Innovation Management of the National Chengchi University (Taiwan), and Professor Chen Meizhang, Director of Center for the Teaching and Study of Intellectual Property Rights, Peking University (Mainland), co-organize the event. Other so-sponsors are: The Chinese Intellectual Property Research Institute (Mainland) and the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Association (APIPA) (Taiwan). More than 40 individuals published their papers and more than 100 top legal professionals, senior government officials, business leaders, judges and researchers participated in the event.

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