The First Round of DHH American Lecture Tour: Seattle—3+1 Road Map for IP Protection of American Enterprises in China
With the progress of Sino-US trade negotiation, Beijing DHH Law Firm upheld the concept of serving clients all around the world and formed a senior lawyer group including Hao Chen, Yuexi Yao, Yimin Liu, Liang Mei, Yanhui Yang to deliver a Lecture Tour across America. The theme of the lecture tour is on 3+1 IP Protection of American Enterprises in China, in which “3” means administrative, civil and criminal methods for IP protection and “1” means the DHH serving platform covering the whole China.
On the morning of March 12th , 2019, in order to promote better protection for foreign enterprise’s IP rights , three lawyers from Beijing DHH Law Firm went to Seattle, and held a seminar on the theme of “3+1: Intellectual Property Protection of Foreign Enterprises in China”at the 3/F Conference Hall of Safeco Building.
The Seminar was presided over by Mr. Yanhui Yang, Partner of Beijing DHH Law Firm, who introduced three keynote speakers and representatives of over 20 law firms and enterprises.
First, Ms. Yuexi Yao shared Annual Legal Report on Intellectual Property Protection of American Enterprises in China (2018) with the participates combined investment and IP Protection of foreign, and made a detailed analysis on Sino-US Trade War from IP protection point of view.
Then, Mr. Hao Chen displayed the rapid development of Beijing DHH Law Firm and its branches around the world. In addition, he introduced the recent development and warmly invited the American law firms present here to attend the exchange meeting of Chinese and foreign law firms in China. He also shared main dilemmas encountered by US companies in the process of safeguarding their IP rights in China, such as trademark’s malicious registering, pirated software using, and so on. In allusion to these problems, Mr. Hao Chen shared related legal practical experiences in China, including creating a Blacklist to prevent malicious registration, raising statutory damages for copyright, shifting the burden of proof, improving the quality of patent creation, application, review, utilization and so on.
Subsequently, Mr. Yimin Liu delivered a speech on Criminal Protection of IP in the Era of AI. From the perspective of criminal protection of IP, lawyer Liu demonstrated the process of IP investigating criminal liability and the relationship among criminal, civil and preservation measures in combination with specific cases.
The speeches and sharing of the three lawyers aroused great interest of the audience. After the Seminar, a number of local lawyers and IP experts from Seattle, such as Mr. Fraser Mendel Owens (Mendel Owens PS), Mr. Andrew Serafini (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton) and Mr. John Crosetto (Garvey Schubert Barer), had a more in-depth exchange on the topics of the seminar with the three keynote speaker.
This Seminar is the first show of DHH American Lecture Tour—“3+1: Protection of IPRs in China through Criminal, Administrative and Civil Proceedings”. Beijing DHH Law Firm will continue to hold seminars in Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago and other landmark US cities and exchange views with local experts. Beijing DHH Law Firm sincerely invites you to participate in our American Lecture Tour. Lectures in Europe, ASEAN and other countries will be conducted following with the American Lecture Tour, which implements DHH working concept—serving global clients.