SVCWireless Special Event: Chinese Patent Law

- How to protect your growth potential in an exploding market:

You have heard so many rosy stories about opening successful businesses in China. You have many excellent ideas and inventions to materialize in this huge market! But, you also heard lots of scary stories about the poor situation of IP protection in China, which makes you wonder if you could simultaneously share the booming opportunities in China without losing valuable intellectual property assets.

So, what’s the real situation of the IP protection in China? How does the system work over there? What step should you take to protect yourself and your company?

Come to join our special event on Chinese Patent Law. Share the vision of the great expert in this area. Get the first hand information from the top Chinese patent attorney, who will present a real case he just handled in China.

Date: March 22, 2007

Time: 6:30 – 7 pm, Registration and networking

7:00 - 9:00 pm, workshop

Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center

801 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94041,

650 – 988 – 8500

Fee: Regular member: Free

Associate member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door

Non-member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door

Student: $5 (Student ID required)

RSVP:

rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line: “3/22: Your Name”

Contact and more information:

Yuan Tian, yuan.tian@svcwireless.org

Special Guest Speaker:

Mr. Xiaoguang Cui is President of Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd., China. Mr. Cui is one of the first patent attorneys in China, and began his career involving patent, trademark, copyright and international trade in 1984. He has in-depth experience in both theoretical and practical aspects of intellectual property laws. Mr. Cui is specialized in dealing with IP litigation cases. As a renowned attorney in the field of intellectual property laws in China, he has handled a great number of litigation cases concerning intellectual property on behalf of well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises. He is also proficient in licensing, assigning, arbitration, IP right protection through administrative proceedings, non-litigation legal affairs, contract law and corporate law.

Mr. Cui is qualified as an attorney-at-law, a patent attorney, an intangible asset evaluator, a trademark attorney, and a foreign trade agent.

Host Speaker:

Ms. Elizabeth Chien-Hale is a U.S. patent attorney. Ms. Chien-Hale has substantial technical knowledge in a variety of electrical and electromechanical arts, having drafted and prosecuted patent applications in telecommunication, software, wireless and Internet-enabled devices, language-based data processing, semiconductor processing and computer-related mechanical devices. She was also involved in a number of intellectual property litigation cases.

Ms. Chien-Hale has lectured and written, in both English and Chinese, on the topics of international intellectual property protection and the Chinese constitutional structure. She is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is licensed to practice in the states of California, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia, and a British Solicitor (early 2007). She is also admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her name has been included in the Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in the World.

She is the legal counselor of the Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association.