Sponsored by SSIP, the seminar on New Progress on SEP Litigation and Regulation was held at Conference Room 601, Mingde Law Building, Renmin University of China on 23rd August, 2019.
The opening ceremony of the seminar was presided over by Professor JIN Kesheng, the Vice President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of the China Law Society and the former Vice President of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court. Prof. LIU Chuntian, President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of the China Law Society and the Dean of the Renmin University of China, School of IP, gave a wonderful speech at the opening ceremony.
The first half of the meeting was moderated by Professor LI Mingde of the Intellectual Property Research Center of the China Academy of Social Science and Professor ZHANG Guangliang, Director of the International Intellectual Property Research Center of Renmin University of China. Mr. Justice Arnold of the British High Court and Justice JIAO Yan of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court gave keynote speeches respectively.
In the subsequent roundtable discussion, Justice DU Weike and Justice Yan JIAO, both from Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, Judge SONG Jian, a full-time member of the Judicial Committee of the Jiangsu Higher People's Court, QIU Yongqing, the Vice Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Guangdong Higher People's Court, Judge WANG Dongyong of Beijing Higher People's Court, Judge JIANG Shuwei, the head of the Fourth Tribunal of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court, Judge ZHAO Ming of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court, Professor ZHONG Chun of Jinan University, and other experts had heated discussions about how to decide whether global rate is FRAND and the jurisditional issues, the influence of the system of anti-suit injunction on jurisdiction and judicial comity, and the national countermeasures against other countries’ anti-suit injunction.
The second half of the conference was moderated by Professor LIU Kongzhong from the Renmin University of China School of Law, and Professor YAO Huangqing, the Secretary-General of SSIP and professor of Renmin University of China, School of IP. Professor NING Lizhi from Wuhan University School of Law, and BI Chunli, the Deputy Director of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, gave keynote speeches respectively.
In the next section, Professor XU Guangyao from Nankai University School of Law, Judge RUI Songyan and Judge PENG Wenyi from Beijing Intellectual Property Court, Judge YANG Fuyu from Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, YANG Pu, a lawyer of Fangda Parterners, ZHAO Ye, a lawyer of Jingtian & Gongcheng, and other experts and scholars had heated discussions about “How to determine the factors of the pricing of SEP licensing fee and how to return to the rate of patent license fees in line with FRAND in practice” and “when the SEP license is required to negotiate, if one party does not seek for FRAND fee, what relief measures the other party can make to deal with it?". In addition to that, some other issues had been explored in depth.
This seminar is informative and inspiring. With the discussion in depth, the seminar provide insights to the resolution of disputes in regard to SEP issues. SSIP will provide report on this seminar very soon.
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