On January 6, 2020, members of the CASS Center for Intellectual Property Studies, including Professor Li Mingde, Professor Guan Yuying, Professor Zhang Peng, and visiting Professor Yan Wenjun, visited the IP Court of the Supreme People’s Court along with other participants of the Sino-Japanese Seminar on Comparative Studies of Issues relating to IP Protection. During the visit, members of the delegation held a meeting with Chief Justice Luo Dongchuan, President of the IP Court, and other judges of the Court.

During the meeting, Mr. Luo Dongchuan pointed out that the IP Court of the Supreme People’s Court was established in accordance with a major decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. It is the first trial organ in the world specialized in the appellate IP cases established within the highest judicial organ of a country and it has made positive progresses and achieved good results in its work since its establishment one year ago.  In recent years, China and Japan have been continuously strengthening the exchange and achieved many positive results in the field of IP. He hoped that the two countries would continue to strengthen exchange and cooperation and jointly advance the modernization of the global IP governance system.

In a speech given on behalf of the CASS Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Professor Li Mingde pointed out that the establishment and the operation of the IP Court of the Supreme People’s Court has been the embodiment of the joint efforts and common expectations of several generations of IP researchers in China. The Sino-Japanese Seminar on Comparative Studies on Issues relating to IP Protection was initiated by Professor Zheng Chengsi, the funder of CASS Center for Intellectual Property Studies, and leaders of Japanese Institute of Intellectual Property. For many years, CASS Center for Intellectual Property Studies and Japanese Institute of Intellectual Property have carried out various kinds of activities of exchanges and cooperation, such as exchange of personnel, organization of academic conferences, and visits to enterprises and institutions, thereby deepening the understanding of each other’s IP systems, and promoting the common development of the IP protection causes in the two countries.