Xie Shunxing, President of CN-KnowHow Intellectual Property Agent Ltd. and three other experts from CN-KnowHow were invited by Japan Guanxi Law Firm to participate in China, Japan and USA IP Seminar in Osaka on April 22, 2009.

This seminar mainly focused on “ Introduction of China and USA IP Litigation ”and “Comparison of the Inventiveness Evaluation Criteria among China, Japan and USA”. Mr. Xie Shunxing, Mr. Zhang Guoliang from CN-KnowHow and Mr.David Makman from Howrey LLP gave lectures “Inventiveness Evaluation Criteria of Patent in China”, “Basic Procedure of IP litigation in China” and “Basic Procedure of IP litigation and Inventiveness Evaluation Criteria in US”respectively.

After lectures, Mr. Xie and Japanese IP professionals discussed US KSR case and explained the relative issues related to Inventiveness Evaluation Criteria of patent and Invalidation Litigation in China.

The seminar participants spoke highly of the lecture. It is regarded that this seminar helped IP professionals to understand basic procedure of IP litigation and inventiveness evaluation criteria of patent in China much better and had a positive effect on promoting IP protection in China for Japanese enterprises.