18Feb
Webinar

Tuesday 18 February

China & Hong Kong updates 2025

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Date and time

Start: Tuesday 18 February 2025, 12:30 PM

End: Tuesday 18 February 2025, 01:30 PM

Event Overview

Toby will cover the changes in intellectual property practices in China and Hong Kong.

Please find the webinar information below.

China

  1. Implementation Rules of the Chinese Patent Law and the revised Chinese Patent Examination Guidelines came into force in January 2024
  2. Handling of evidence in administrative trademark infringement cases.
  3. Calculating Illegal Business Volume for Trademark Infringement.
  4. Exemplary patent and trademark agency engagement letters.
  5. Many drafts: Measures for Administrative Adjudication and Mediation of Patent Disputes; Examination guidelines of horizontal concentration of business operators; AI related patent application guidelines; CN trademark expedited exam measures; anti-unfair competition law.

Hong Kong

  1. Decision on the boundary of parallel import
  2. Mutual recognition of CN and HK court decisions on IP, with many catches.

Audience

All

Speakers

Toby Mak, Tee & Howe

Toby Mak, Tee & Howe

Born and educated in Hong Kong with a PhD in chemistry and The only Chinese patent attorney working in a Beijing Chinese patent firm from Hong Kong.
Past co-chair of the AIPLA’s IP Practice in China committee and current co-chair of the AIPLA’s IP Practice in the Far East committee and is also Vice Chair of the Asian Practice committee of the IPO.

Trained under the UK system and took the UK CIPA examinations, and passed some of the papers. Responsible for publishing articles on China IP update for the UK CIPA Journal.

Member of AIPLA, IPO, UK CIPA and speaks several languages: Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), English

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