Thursday 21st
March 2024
9.00 pm-10.00 am CET
Thursday 21st
March 2024
9.00 pm-10.00 am CET
In the wake of the creation of the WTO, 30 years ago, and the subsequent development of world trade, countries of Eastern, Southern and Southeast Asia managed to steadily develop their economies, with a long period of overall and overwhelming growth and wealth development. From initial embryony patent players, they managed to develop vivid scientific research and attract foreign investment, that led them to strong, resilient, and fast-growing patent systems, with impressive growth in patent statistics, placing them among worldwide leaders. Countries as different as the Republic of Korea, China, and India, but also other countries in the region, embarked dynamically, and with success, in this race, that now places Asia as a key player in patents. Some analysts perceive Eastern Asia as the new paradise of Patents. Which causes for this? Which consequences for this? Is this analysis really, correct? Will growth trends continue? Which consequences this bears and will losers try to limit new winners? What differences on patent maintenance rates between Europe/North America and new entrants can tell us? For this Session of our Global Digital Encounters, authoritative Speakers from Asia, and Europe with a variety of opinions will provide a live picture of the present and future of a nicknamed «Patent Paradise of Asia».
Beijing Normal University Law Professor, Director of Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) and Co-Director of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and BNU Joint Program.
Assistant Professor in IP Law at Durham University
Professor of law at Singapore Management University / Renmin University of China. Adjunct chair professor at Shandong University, China.
Professor of IP Law at Bocconi University. Director of TIPSA. Chair of the European IP Teachers Network. Member of Fide’s Academic Council.
Thursday, March 21st, 2024 @ 9.00 am CET
Prof. Dr. Hong Xue (China)
Prof. Dr. Hong Xue is Beijing Normal University Law Professor, Director of Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) and Co-Director of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and Beijing Normal University (BNU) Joint Certificate Program on International E-Commerce Law. She was the primary legal expert appointed by the Chinese National People’s Congress for Drafting the E-Commerce Law. She is on the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT) and 2nd APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Expert Council. She has been the arbitrator at China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) from 2004 and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panelist at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 2000. Prof. Xue has taught in law schools in Australia, United States and Hong Kong and was the Residential Fellow of Yale Information Society Project. Prof. Xue researches international trade law, information technology law, electronic commerce law, intellectual property law and internet governance and has published many books and journal articles.
Publications: As well as writing the Chinese Section of International Computer and Internet Contracts and Law, Professor Xue is author of International Property Law @ Crossroad (2012), International E-Commerce Law (2019) and many other books and research papers.
Dr. Van Anh Le (Vietnam)
Dr Van Anh Le rejoined Durham Law School in 2023 as an Assistant Professor of IP Law after spending one year there in 2018-2019. Her distinguished academic career was built on a rich tapestry of experiences at different Russel Group universities. Before her role at Durham, she was a Departmental Lecturer at Oxford (2021–2023), overseeing the OIPRC Invited Speaker Series. She also worked for Warwick University (2019-2021), where she was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award.
Van Anh read for her LLB at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (Vietnam) and completed her LLM and PhD at Bangor University (UK). During her doctoral studies, she received a research scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich in 2016 and 2017. In 2013, Van Anh was honoured with the Eric Sunderland IP Law Travel Scholarship by the Welsh Livery Company.
Her research has delved into the challenges faced by developing countries regarding intellectual property (IP) rights and access to essential medicines. She examined the use of compulsory patent licensing in India, Brazil, and Thailand and highlighted the difficulties these nations face due to their limited manufacturing capacity. Similarly, her investigation into the use of patents for second medical purposes in Vietnam revealed how developing countries often struggle to meet international standards, resorting to ambiguous language while practical implementation remains elusive
These contributions have not only been recognised internationally but have also yielded some influences. She had the privilege of serving as an external validator for The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) report in 2022, focusing on ‘Compulsory Licensing for Expensive Medicines‘ to assess the scientific validity of the report. Additionally, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) selected her co-authored article Are IPRs and Patents the Real Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies? for its ‘Review of Existing Research on Patents and Access to Medical Products and Health Technologies,’ for the period 2019-2021.
Beyond her academic endeavours, Van Anh has written for Managing IP, a prominent platform for IP practitioners.
She currently focuses on public policy in Southeast Asia, leveraging her expertise in IP Law. Her recent publications explored the legal transplant of Geographical Indications in Vietnam and the influence of the Soviet Legacy on the country’s IP system. Her goal is to elevate local viewpoints in global conversations on IP, aiming to reconcile international standards with regional requirements. Additionally, she is passionate about mentoring PhD students in patents, copyrights, IP public policies, and the historical evolution of IP law.
Dr. Kung-Chung LIU (Singapore)
Dr. Liu (LLD Munich University, Germany) is a professor of law at Singapore Management University/Renmin University of China. He is also adjunct chair professor at Shandong University, China. In addition, Prof. Liu teaches regularly at Maastricht University (Nederland) and Tsinghua University (China), and NCCU (Taiwan) in the field of intellectual property law. His research focuses on IP law’s intersection with competition law, with a geographic emphasis on Asia. He has thus far edited/coedited and published fifteen books in English which include Artificial Intelligence And Intellectual Property (Jyh-An Lee/Reto M. Hilty/Kung-Chung Liu (eds.) OUP 2021) and Trade Secret Protection—Asia at a Crossroads (Kung-Chung Liu/Reto Hilty (eds.), Kluwer 2021). Prof. Liu authored and published in 2022 IP Laws and Regimes in Major Asian Economies―Combing Through Thousand Threads of IP To Peace in Asia (Routledge). His second monograph in English is forthcoming with Routledge: Deciphering IP Law and Its Conflict with Competition Law‒Global Norms Against Asian Context.
Laurent MANDERIEUX (France)
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at L. Bocconi University of Milan, Italy, Member of the Directorate Board, Bocconi LL.M in Law of Internet Technology, Director, Bocconi Summer Schools in Law, Chair, European IP Teachers’ Network, Coordinator, Transatlantic IP Academy and is invited Professor / Lecturer of Intellectual Property Law in Universities and Training institutes in many countries of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. In addition to his IP teaching, numerous Publications, and IP research activities at Bocconi, one of the most prestigious and high-ranked Universities in the European Union, Laurent Manderieux is Senior Intellectual Property Expert for various international Organisations and governments. He was for many years Official and Senior Official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland: in particular, as Head, WIPO Public Affairs and Media Relations, he took care of training and information for government officials, lawyers, researchers, scientists, and business circles (in this capacity he prepared training material and IP publications, and made up to 100 presentations per year). Before joining WIPO, he also worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome, Italy; and at the European Union in Brussels. Over the last two decades, he wrote numerous publications and studies, and undertook international projects for the EU, the EPO, UNDP, UNCTAD, WIPO, IDLO, OIF, and various Governments. In this context, visited some 140 countries. He works in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German. Member of Fide’s International Academic Council.
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