Seminar on Patent Protection Held in Cixi

Category: Ningbo District
Published: Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:51

Recently, Cixi Science and Technology Bureau has held a seminar on enterprises pursuing and securing patent protection while attending European exhibitions in Platinum Hanjue Hotel (Cixi). Around 120 people attended the seminar including responsible men and intellectual property managers from enterprises and technical liaison officers.
The keynote speaker Dr. Kohler is a famous European (German) patent lawyer and the responsible man of Dennemeyer (Frankfurt),  a leading international IP firm. He is adept in dealing with IP work in Europe and often has close contact with Ningbonese enterprises. In the seminar, Dr. Kohler introduced European patent law and elaborated on how to pursue patent protection and to file patent infringement suit before, during and after the European exhibitions, introduced border inspection and unitary patent. Intellectual property protection is of great significance in Cixi, an economically prosperous city especially in foreign trade. A great number of enterprises frequently attended European exhibitions with their patented products. Recently, enterprises in Cixi have put great emphasis on applying for European patents with an annual growth of 98.9% patent grants in the last 3 years and 237 patent grants in 2015