A two-day program on Intellectual Property (IP) Management planned by the University of Wisconsin Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center in cooperation with Nanjing University and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be held at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, on October 17 and 18, 2008.

The program's schedule features speakers from Nanjing University, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and experts from fields of law and business.

Topics will include:

Bayh-Dole: Wisconsin Roots and Inspired Public Policy

University Technology Transfer in China

University Technology Transfer in Europe

Legal Aspects of Technology Start-Ups and Venture Capital in China

Legal Aspects of Technology Start-Ups and Venture Capital in the U.S.

China: Latest Draft of the 3rd Amended Chinese Patent Law

Creating and Managing an IP Portfolio

Speakers will include:

Dr. Carl Gulbrandsen (WARF)

Craig Christenson (WARF)

Dr. Rongxin Gan, Vice President for Technology Transfer, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Academic Sinica

Dr. Kening Li (Pinsent Masons, Shanghai)

Alex Zhang (Jones Day, Shanghai)

Rochelle Klaskin (Godfrey & Kahn, Madison)

Charlie Chang (02Micro)

Dr. Pilar Ossorio (University of Wisconsin Law School)

Pauline Stasiak, Associate Director of IP, Medical Research Council, UK

Information about registration will be available at a later date on the East Asian Legal Studies Center Web site:  http://law.wisc.edu/ealsc/uwnanda_ip_program.html .

Submitted by on July 17, 2008

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