G•IPRs News Update - March. 2010

From March 24 to 27 in 2010, The 32nd Meeting of Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China ( “AVS Workgroup Meeting”) was held in Guangzhou. Zhong Yi, attorney at law, with his assistant, attended the IPR subgroup meeting discussing the intellectual property policy and the establishment of patent database of the AVS video of second generation. Moreover, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Cliff Reader (the former head of US delegation of MPEG, the chief editor of MPEG-1, the first chairman of MPEG-4 workgroup). He patiently made explanations to the issues of patent technology and such alike during our research throughout this meeting.

From March 22 to 23 in 2010, GIPRS group member attended the lecture on Patent Litigation Practice in European Union and Germany held by Intellectual Property School and Law School of Tongji University and Intellectual Property Committee of Shanghai Bar Association and so on. The partner from REIMANN OSTERRIETH KÖHLER HAFT and Prof. Dr. Christian Osterrieth from Konstanz University made terrific speeches on European and German patent system, among others, the law enforcement system.