IP China 2007
Invitation Letter

Dear Sir / Madam:

   IP China 2007 Summit Forum on intellectual Property & Technology Standards of Information Industry in China, IP forum for short, will be operated by Ministry of Information Industry Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP)、Ministry of Information Industry , P.R. China intellectual Property center、China Electronics Standardization Institute and China Electronics Standardization Association in Beijing Xinyuan Hotel from November 29th to 30th, 2007.

CSIP has successfully held two consecutive Intellectual Property Summit Forums in 2005 and 2006. National Intellectual Property development strategy has been wonderfully and deeply discussed in the conference at different aspects, for improving the utilization of the enterprise intellectual property, and supplying the support platform for the security and stability intellectual property environment, which has been highly evaluated in the domestic and international industry field. For more information about IP China, please visit the website: http://www.ipchina.org.cn and http://www.csip.org.cn.

This forum focus on the related discussion and display of trade and transfer and standards of intellectual property rights, provide intellectual property professional information and interpretations about enterprises patent of survival; Raise awareness of intellectual property rights; give services with management trainings, share advanced concepts about intellectual property rights.

This Forum provide a platform, which domestic and international famous IP providers, legal institutions, over 100 software and integrate circuit enterprises share the information and commercial communications together from legal, operational points of view and multi-angles, and comprehensively promote development healthily about relevant industries in the field of intellectual property .

Given your long-term supports to and interests in the Forum, we hereby invite you to participate in the Forum as well as the discussions.

We look forward to your participation and cooperation.

Ministry of Information Industry Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP )

Background

Who infringed my patents?
---Raising “the banner of justice” in order to protect its own privileges and benefits, SigmaTel, one of the main global suppliers of decoding chips for MP3 players, was imposing sanctions on Chinese enterprises of MP3 players by means of various tactics after winning ITC lawsuit. Moreover, it seemed “boldly” to continue implementing a policy of restricting and even bankrupting them. Whether was it worthwhile to pay for the ITC fees to keep the order in place?
---The parties entered into a three year patent cross licensing agreement as part of the settlement


The patent mortgage loans exploited the buried treasure of patent!
--- In October 2006, the Beijing branch of Bank of Communication cooperated with other specialty institutions to launch a new financial product named as “unimpeded development for enterprises” to offer intellectual property rights mortgage loans for the small-sized enterprise. For instance, Kery Bio-Pharm Company got a 1.5 million Chinese RMB loan from there by using one of its invention patents as collateral.


Chinese MP3 products were under the examination of patent!
---During the day of the CeBIT 2007 opening ceremony, Sisvel from Italy led Germany Customs into the investigation of products and companies who were concerned with the infringement of patents. Among them, there were hundreds of kinds of the exhibiting digital products of many manufacturers from Chinese mainland and Taiwan district. Sisvel aimed to get the patent fee from each product---It costs 4.8 Chinese RMB for each one!

The battle of DVD,who win?
---From Sept.1999,the patent fee of DVD production that Chinese enterprises has paid is huge, The average patent fee of a DVD is accounted for about half the average cost of exports; International standards on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD standards staged a two-Ends, In China, domestic EVD standard and the Japanese standard on the Romance of the three kingdoms. If Chinese enterprises want to come out of the predicament of zero profit caused by the huge patent fee, they have to become self-innovation and powerful to confront with Japan standards.
 

By the end of the transition period with China’s access to the World Trade Organization, many national laws and regulations, especially the intellectual property laws and regulations, has accelerated the process to adjoin with the international law. The intellectual property and technology standards has being the focus of contention between countries and enterprises. Many Technology Standards developed rapidity and it’s combined with intellectual property tightly now. The technology Standards is becoming a important part that you can’t ignore;The patent right conflict has become more and more incandescent, the event of intellectual property transfer and transaction is emerged in endlessly,and has produced a grave impact on the development of national relational industry. Only used the double-edged sword of the patent system smoothly, changed ideas and gained the initiative, can we obtain both the challenge and opportunity.  

  In order to protect the industry’s healthy development, construct core competitive ability and encourage the development of enterprise independent Intellectual Property technology, Ministry of Information and Industry Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) has successfully held two consecutive Intellectual Property Summit Forums for the last two years. National Intellectual Property development strategy has been wonderfully and deeply discussed in the conference at different aspects, for improving the utilization of the enterprise intellectual property, and supplying the support platform for the security and stability intellectual property environment, which has been highly evaluated in the domestic and international industry field.  

Information industry intellectual property and technology standards summit forum in China is a significative event that discuss the problem of intellectual property and technology standards that in the field of the information industry. It’s has already got great success of 3rd times , it’s scope and influence have got the authorization from the insiders of industry. The 4th Information industry intellectual property and technology standards summit forum in China will co-sponsored with IP China2007 3rd China soft and integrated circuit intellectual property Summit Forum ,it will good for the deeply discuss of the problem that is closely linked with intellectual property. 

In 2007, the Chinese government launched the National Intellectual Property Strategy which will play crucial role to promote the production, protection, transaction of IP in the IC and software industry. We will co-sponsored the IP China 2007 Summit Forum on Intellectual Property & Technology Standards of Information Industry in China. 

Purpose

To built the platform between the government and enterprise, collect the ideas that come from government and enterprise , promote the enterprises to increase the conscious of operating the Intellectual Property.
Disclosing patent transaction cases domestic and abroad; Analyzing how to survive in enterprises of the patent .
To focus on the most representative field of technology, and analyze the IP strategy of IP .
Providing training of IP laws and IP management skills;Sharing the advanced ideas and concepts of IP issues.

Features

International IP summit forum, openly sharing platform of advanced IP information
——Over 100 domestic and international famous law forms, IP service providers, software and integrate circuit enterprises will take part in the forum and share the special and commercial information together from different points of view.
Inter-communication of professionals, practical training & theoretical research
——Experts and mangers from Chinese government, scientific research institutes;universities and famous law firms will share their experiences of IP transaction to stimulate the development of information industry.
? Interchange the management practices of intellectual property , discuss the Typical case
——Discuss the negotiation strategy of patent transaction, license and, accredit, discuss the case that related the patent transaction, standards and intellectual property, Interchange enterprise’s experience and indoctrination that come from the international competition
Top media focus
——Promote the enterprises’ marketing and branding obviously by both domestic and international popular media report.

Demonstration platform

IP China2007 will continue to provide the communication platform for the cooperated units and the visitors, and the meeting will arrange a field of 200M2 to provide the following display contents:
1, domestic and foreign databases and patent analysis software supplier;
2, domestic and foreign intellectual property service organization;
3, domestic and foreign intellectual property demonstration enterprises;