30/07/2019

19/11/19 – Webinar Trademarks for Plant Products in China

The CIOPORA Academy Webinars:

In November 2019, the CIOPORA Academy program on IP for plants will be expanded to distance learning offerings in the form of webinars. Each webinar will be conducted in two sessions to cover all time zones, enabling participation from all locations worldwide.

All CIOPORA Academy Webinars will be broadcasted live in Livestorm, an online webinar platform, which allows participation for registered persons via internet browser with no prior installation. Please see our User Manual below for more information on the technical requirements.

The webinar on Trademarks for Plant Products in China is the inaugural event in the CIOPORA Academy webinar series.

Protecting Plant Varieties Through Trademarks in China

Registration

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Rates:

CIOPORA member: EUR 149,00
Guest: EUR 299,00

A non-refundable registration fee of approximately 3% of the ticket price applies to all orders.

What will I learn?

In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the Trademark protection regime in China, covering topics including:

the registration and prosecution system, plant variety denomination issue, filing strategies, registrability, actions against bad faith filings;
investigation and enforcement options such as negotiations, customs seizures, online notice and take-down procedures, administrative actions, civil litigations and criminal sanctions;
Trademark licensing arrangements with Chinese business partners.

The webinar will focus on practical challenges faced by plant breeders in Trademark protection in China and discuss useful tips and best practices to protect your plant varieties by Trademarks.

When?

Two sessions of the webinar will be held to enable participation in all time zones. The sessions are scheduled in China Standard Time (Beijing time, 北京时间 ) to match the speaker’s time zone.

Speaker’s time zone: China Standard Time (CST)

Duration of each session: ca. 1,5 h

Session 1: 9:00 am CST, November 19, 2019.
Check the FULL LIST OF TIME ZONES for this event.
Note: Corresponds to Monday evening, November 18, at the US East Coast.

Session 2: 18:00 pm CST, November 19, 2019.
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Meet the Speaker:

Andrew Sim

Andrew Sim Partner, Baker McKenzie, Hong Kong

Andrew Sim is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Hong Kong office and a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group, where he leads the IP enforcement and litigation practice for Hong Kong. He is the Global Chair of the Plant Variety Rights Practice, which includes registration and enforcement of plant breeders’ rights. Andrew also heads the Food and Beverage (F&B) Industry Practice Group in the Greater China region and advises on all F&B related areas, including consumer, regulatory, food safety, advertisements, franchising as well as internet laws, and regulations.