IP China 2008 The ４th China Integrated Circuit & Software Intellectual Property Summit forum

　　　　　　　　　　　　IP China 2008 The ４th China Integrated Circuit & Software
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Intellectual Property Summit forum

Dr. Qiu Shanqin --Opening ceremony

Mr. Han Jun--Leader addressing

Mr. Ding Wenwu--Leader addressing

Mr. He Yuefeng--Leader addressing

Mr. Ni Guangnan--Keynote Speech

Summit Forum 1

Sisvel--Keynote Speech

Summit Forum 2

IBM--Keynote Speech

CSIP--Keynote Speech

Finnegan--Keynote Speech

Summit Forum 3

Training 1

Training 2

Training 3

Training 5

Exhibition

Training Hall in 11.13

Summit Forum in 11.14

CSIP Expert accept the interview

Background

* Foreign-related IP disputes over software occur frequently, and the independent innovation of China’s IT industry faces challenges
——On Jan. 24, 2003, Cisco launched a lawsuit against Huawei for illegal copying of its application software; in 2004, Sun Microsystems reached reconciliation with Kodak on a Java software patent litigation; in Feb. 2007, Silicon Image accused Analogix Semiconductor of peculating its commercial secrets and violating the copyright of its semiconductor configuration software; and in Feb. 2008, EU issued an anti-trust penalty of EUR 900 million to Microsoft.
Software IPR issue becomes increasingly apparent along with the development of information technology. Along with the rapid development of computer software industry, software industry accounts for an increasingly bigger share in national economy. Software has penetrated into all fields of national economy and daily life, and its importance has won extensive recognition. How to provide a more reasonable and effective legal protection system has become an inevitable problem to be solved by the legal community and the industry.

* Patent technology standardization trend becomes evident in Digital Era, and management system for intellectual property in standard requires regulation！
——On Mar. 26, 2008, Rambus finally won a key victory in a legal dispute with major memory chip manufacturers lasted for nearly ten years. A jury of San Jose District Court decided that since Rambus had provided patent licensing to other companies, it did not conduct monopoly. Finally, Rambus won the IP dispute aroused since Rambus asked for patent royalty from DRAM manufacturers after cheating Jedec to compile the DRAM standard.
Along with the enhancement of the status of standardization in trade, integrating IP into technical standard has become an important measure adopted by foreign high-tech enterprises to implement IP strategy. However, how to manage intellectual properties owned by various standard makers in standardization process will become an increasing hot topic for IT industry.

* Anti-trust Law has been issued, and many industries in China face reshuffling ！
——On August 1, 2008, China’s first Anti-trust Law took effect. From planning, drafting, passing and implementation, this “economic constitution” of China for protecting fair competition has gone through 14 years.
Though there is still a long way to go to issue the implementation rules of the Anti-trust Law, it is undeniable that the law has brought opportunity and hope for domestic IT enterprises because the value of the Anti-trust Law lies on future-oriented incentive and guidance function. It will provide basical principals for Chinese enterprises to fight against those multinational companies pressing the development space of Chinese industries with market monopoly and technical monopoly. It also indicates that many industries in China will face reshuffling. We believe that the reform measures properly designed in the Anti-trust Law will display its profound significance as time goes by.

* Along with the issuance of National Intellectual Property Strategy Guidelines, the construction of China’s intellectual property system enters into a strategic opportunity phase.
——At 10am on Jun. 13, 2008, the press conference for National Intellectual Property Strategy Guidelines was held by the State Council Information Office. From the proposal to strongly promote intellectual property strategy in the 17th CPC National Congress to the issuance of National Intellectual Property Strategy, a series of measures indicate that the construction of China’s intellectual property system has entered into a key strategic initiative period. China’s intellectual property is facing unprecedented historical development opportunity as well as new domestic and international challenges.

As an active response to the call of the nation to fully implement intellectual property strategy, and to promote the grand strategic goal of building a strong Chinese IT industry, IP China 2008 - The 4th China Software & Integrated Circuit Intellectual Property Summit Forum will be held ceremoniously on Nov. 13-14, 2008 in Beijing.

Purposes

*Build IP information communication platform for government and enterprises and enable them to give voices
*Analyze the latest trends of domestic and overseas software IP protection and explain the latest progress of the IPR policies in standard
*Provide training courses about IP law and IP management practice and share the advanced IP work concepts of domestic and overseas.

Feature

Specialized international IP summit forum, and open frontier information sharing and business communication
—— Domestic and overseas over 100 IT enterprises and public units and authoritative IP service agencies will carry out information sharing and business communication from various perspectives;

Interactive platform for domestic and overseas IP elites, forward-looking high-end IP training and theory exploration
—— Senior experts and management elites from government departments, universities, law firms and enterprises will conduct in-depth discussion on IP operation experience and practices;

Practical communication of enterprises intellectual property management, and analysis of the latest typical industrial cases
—— Analyze the latest trend of software IP protection, discuss the latest progress of policies on IP in standard, and analyze the impact of anti-monopoly and implementation of national intellectual property strategy to China’s IT industry;

Full-course coverage by famous media to substantially enhance enterprise image and brand value
—— Greatly enhance the market promotion and brand publicity of relevant enterprises through full-course support and coverage of the summit forum by various domestic and overseas famous media

Exhibition Platform

IP China 2008 shall continue to provide exhibition communication platform for cooperative units and guests. An area of 200m2 will be arranged in the venue to exhibit:

1.Domestic and overseas database and software analysis software suppliers;
2.Domestic and overseas intellectual property service agencies and law firms;
3.Domestic and overseas exemplary IP enterprises.