China Intellectual Property and Sports Summit Forum is held in Shanghai on May 13, which is organized by Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS, China Society of Studies on Sports Laws, Suning Sports, NBA China and ByteDance and undertaken by the secretariat of Special Committee of Sports Intellectual Property of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS (AnJie Law Firm). SSIP provides support for the Forum.
With the theme of the World Intellectual Property Day of 2019 as “Fighting for the Gold Medal: Intellectual Property and Sports”, decision makers of sports and intellectual property, industry practitioners on sports, scholars on sports and law attend the Forum and discuss issues like the promotion of professional sports to the economic and social development, the importance of intellectual property on the development of sports industry and the challenge of intellectual property that sports industry faces.
He Jing, Secretary-general of Special Committee of Sports Intellectual Property of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS
The opening ceremony of the Forum is hosted by He Jing, secretary-general of Special Committee of Sports Intellectual Property of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS. Liu Chuntian, president of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS, Liu Yan, president of Special Committee of Sports Intellectual Property of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS, Wang Dong, e*ecut*ve vice president of Suning Sports and Shi Ailian, e*ecut*ve director of International Intellectual Property of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center deliver opening speech respectively.
Liu Chuntian, President of Intellectual Property Law Association of CLS
The activity combines the live matches and forum together, which makes it innovative and attracting. Before the Forum, guests enjoy the ninth round of China Football Association Super League match between Shanghai SIPG and Shandong Luneng at Shanghai Stadium. Apart from communicating with the director, the commentator and photographers, guests also take part in making public signal and live signal.
In the session of the topic titled “Judicial trials’ promotion to the business environment of sports industry”, part of cases related to sports industry Intellectual Property have been discussed by participants from academia, industry, administrative and judicial department. Participants of the Forum argue that Intellectual Property protection mainly refers to the patent right, copyright trademark, business secret, law enforcement and international rules while patent right is the foundation of the sports industry, so as reinforced concrete to building. The Forum has raised the awareness of intellectual property protection on sports industry and appealed to Chinese and foreign sports brands, athletes and sports leagues to take active part in the intellectual property protection on sports in China.
Source: iprdaily.cn.
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