Prof. Guan Yuying, a research fellow of the CASS Center for Intellectual Property Rights Studies, chaired the opening ceremony. Prof. Li Mingde, Director of CASS Center for Intellectual Property Rights Studies, and Prof. Bruun from the Law School of Helsinki University each give a speech at the ceremony on behalf of the Chinese and Finnish partners of the cooperative project.
The seminar was divided into two sessions, namely “IPR Law and the Collective Management of IPR” and “IPR Law Enforcement and Innovative Policy”. During the seminar, a series of presentations was given at the seminar on the following subjects: “Chinese Art Market and the Right of Renewal”, “Problems in the Collective Management of Copyright and Countermeasures Thereof”, “Studies on the Issue of Orphan Works”, “Case Study on the Collective Management of Rights in China and Nordic Countries’, “Study on Supporting Copyright Policy in the Field of On-line Music in China”, “Proposals on the Draft Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law”, “European IPR Policies from a Comparative Perspective”, and “IPR-related Criminal Law Enforcement in Nordic Countries”.
Apart from the above presentations, participants also carried out heated discussions and exchanged information and opinions on the following issues: “how to determine the subjects of art market”, “collective protection of the copyright of digital works”, “the current situation of protection of orphan works in European countries”, “the implementation of the IPR strategy in China”, “the triple compensation in IPR infringement litigation”, “the improvement of the patent invalidation procedure in China”, “obstacles to the construction of a unified patent system in Europe”, and “sentencing criteria in IPR-related criminal cases”.