Challenges in Protecting Intellectual Property in China

About this Event

This presentation will inform rights holders and policy makers about the risks to American intellectual property (IP) as we pursue strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, and approaches to mitigate exposure. Problematic areas include: Forced technology transfer; lack of transparency, impartiality, and due process in IP enforcement and judicial proceedings; non-market-based and unfairly low royalties for U.S.-owned standard essential patents (SEPs) and non-SEPs; unfair targeting of U.S. IP owners for antitrust enforcement; restrictions on technology licensing terms; poor trade secret protection; bad faith trademark squatting; patent concerns, including lack of patent-term extensions, inability to submit supplemental data to initial patent applications, and lack of regulatory data protections; chronic product counterfeiting; and persistent infringement of copyrighted material through illicit streaming and circumvention of technological protective measures.

• Identifying critical problematic IP sectors concerning patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and enforcement.
• Factors in assessing and managing risk, and structuring protective protocols.
• Expert U.S. Government resources to help evaluate and mitigate hazards.