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| Wu Kai |
The inaugural China-International IP Forum, organised by Managing IP, took place on June 29 and 30 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beijing.
The event was opened by Wu Kai, deputy director general of the International Cooperation Department of SIPO, and the first panel focused on the use that Chinese companies are making of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Dr Gao Lulin, former commissioner of SIPO and chairman of East IP Law Firm, moderated the panel, which included representatives of China's two biggest PCT filers: Alan Fan, the deputy director of the IP department at Huawei and Sean Ke, IP director at ZTE.
"This method of filing is not only going to be good, but is also going to be suitable for other companies as well," said Fan.
WIPO featured in a second session on day one in which Christopher Hughes of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and CK Kwong,...