Event Details:
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Event type: |
Forum |
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Date: |
Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 April 2013 |
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Time: |
Wednesday 14:00-17:00, Thursday 8:30- 22:00, Friday 8:30-16:30 |
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Location: |
Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna, Rennweg 16, 1030 Wien |
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Language: |
English |
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Event partner: |
Organised in the partnership with the European Patent Office (EPO) |
Event Description:
"East meets West" is the EPO's annual forum on Asian patent information. The forum serves as a regular platform for patent information users around the world to discuss their Asian patent information needs.
During the two-day event, plenary sessions and smaller discussion rounds will treat various Asian patent information subjects. Participants will be able to obtain an overview of the latest developments in Asian patent data during a poster session and commercial product presentations. Additionally, there will be ample opportunity for informal contact with experts from Asia and Europe. Optional training and introductory sessions can be booked in the run-up to the forum.
IP expert Simon Cheetham will present on behalf of the Helpdesk focusing on the instruments supporting European industry in China.
See below for full expert bio and registration details.
Agenda:
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Training sessions, Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
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14.00 - 17.00 |
1. Patent information from ASEAN countries |
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14.00 - 16.00 |
2. Patent information from Arabic countries |
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Introductory sessions, Thursday 18 April 2013 |
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8.30 - 9.30 |
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9.45 - 10.45 |
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11.00 - 12.00 |
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Workshop, Thursday 18 April 2013 |
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10.00 - 12.00 |
What the user community needs - towards effective collaboration between East and West |
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Thursday, 18 April 2013
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14.00 - 14.20 |
Welcome & keynote speeches (Richard Flammer, EPO; François-Régis Hannart, EPO) |
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News from Asia and beyond |
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14.20 - 14.40 |
Korea: features of the new interface of KIPRIS (Youngtae Son, KIPO) |
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14.40 - 15.00 |
Japan: machine translation from the JPO's perspective (representative of JPO) |
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15.00 - 15.20 |
Singapore: Update on Singapore's patent system and patent work-sharing in ASEAN (Sharmaine Wu Shee Mei, IPOS) |
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15.20 - 15.40 |
India: latest developments and trends in patent information |
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15.40 - 16.00 |
Gulf countries: introduction to the GCC patent system |
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16.00 - 16.30 |
Coffee break |
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China focus |
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16.30 - 16.55 |
Recent developments in Chinese patent information |
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16.55 - 17.20 |
IPR: challenges and experiences of Chinese industry |
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17.20 - 17.45 |
Supporting European industry in China (Simon Cheetham, China IPR SME Helpdesk) |
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19.15 - 22.00 |
Evening event at Orangerie Schönbrunn (departure of buses from "Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen" at 18.15 hrs) |
Friday, 19 April 2013
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08.30 - 10.30 |
Poster session and product presentations |
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10.30 - 12.00 |
Round-table discussions |
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12.00 - 13.30 |
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13.30 - 14.00 |
Lunch & possibility to visit poster exhibition |
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14.00 - 15.30 |
Wrap-up of round-table discussions |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Streams: First-hand experience with Asian systems
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16.00 - 16.20 |
Coffee break & possibility to visit poster exhibition |
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16.20 - 16.30 |
Personal view of East meets West |
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Closing remarks |
Speaker Biography Simon Cheetham is the Team Leader of the China IPR SME Helpdesk. He is a China IPR Enforcement expert with over 30 years' experience in commercial investigations, due diligence and IPR enforcement in China and internationally. He has lived and worked in China and South-East Asia for over 17 years. He is also the Managing Director of ERINYES INTERNATIONAL LTD, a firm he founded to capitalise on his extensive experience of international investigations, loss prevention and enforcement work. He manages and directs the operations of the Company from Europe to the Far East. Simon began his career with the Hong Kong Police, where he was responsible for the detection and prosecution of a wide variety of crimes, including fraud and homicide. While in South-East Asia Simon was Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce Intellectual Property Committee and acted as an advisor to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force on China. He has lectured frequently around the world on security issues and IPR and has written articles and papers on a variety of related topics, including a chapter in 'Intellectual Property Law and Practice in the People's Republic of China' published by Kluwer Law International B.V. He is fluent in English and Cantonese. Registration To register, please follow this link.