OCTOBER 2004
Secrets of success in China
While eager to do business in China, many foreign investors remain concerned about the lack of protection and enforcement of IP rights. In a special roundtable debate organized by MIP, leading figures discuss how to succeed and what needs to change in the country
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About the participants
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Judge Jiang
Zhipei is the Chief
Justice of the Intellectual
Property Rights Tribunal of China's
Supreme People's Court. |
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Shi
Xiaomei is a patent
attorney and member of the board of
directors of China Patent Agent
(Hong Kong). |
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Professor
Zheng Chengsi is the
director of the Intellectual
Property Centre at the China
Academy of Social Sciences, a WIPO
and CIETAC arbitrator and a
congressman and member of the
National Congress Law
Committee. |
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Emma
Barraclough is Asia editor
of Managing Intellectual
Property. |
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Wen
Xikai is deputy director
general of the Law & Treaty
Department of the State
Intellectual Property Office. |
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James
Haynes is a US patent
attorney. He is co-chair of the
American Chamber of Commerce-PRC's
Intellectual Property Forum and is
a partner of Beijing based IP firm
Tee & Howe. |
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Emma Barraclough: China is drafting new guidelines about
the thresholds for bringing criminal actions against
counterfeiters. There is debate over whether thresholds will be
based on the value of the counterfeit goods or the genuine ones.
Will the new guidelines provide a sufficient deterrence?
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