On Monday, 11th March, the Intellectual Property Rights Working Group will hold its 2024-2025 working group chair and vice chair elections.

• 2024-03-11 | 15:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405 + European Chamber Office Shanghai, 22nd Floor, Unit 2204

During this event, experts on Chinese intellectual property (IP) regulations will share the latest updates on China’s IP landscape, with a focus on the issues that will matter most for SMEs while navigating 2024.

• 2024-02-27 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

Up until now, data intellectual property (IP) has mostly been regulated by existing IP protection frameworks. This is changing with the introduction of various local trial initiatives across China. Join the Intellectual Property Rights Working Group for an overview of data IP and what it means for European businesses in China.

• 2023-11-29 | 10:30 - 12:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405 and Zoom

How can French enterprises get a deeper understanding of the particularities and complexities of the Chinese market, so as to better adapt to and integrate in an era of digital transformation？How can Chinese companies fully understand and adapt to the French market, to better "go global" in an era of globalization? This forum will invite representatives from China and France’s governments, business communities, and academic circles to engage in in-depth discussions on these questions and more. In the process, they will promote bilateral business exchanges along with the stable and far-reaching development of Sino-French relations, jointly helping to write a new chapter of cooperation for the future.

• 2023-11-16 | 16:00 - 19:00
• China Europea International Business School (CEIBS)

Forum Background

The comprehensive strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and China turns 20 this year. Over the past two decades the EU and China, two of the world’s leading economies, have engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation in a win-win manner and achieved significant success in fields such as politics, economy, culture, and science. As of the end of 2022, EU-China bilateral trade volume reached $847.3 billion, with each side the second-largest trading partner of the other. The stock of two-way investment between China and the EU has exceeded $230 billion, benefiting people on both sides and contributing greatly to world peace and economic prosperity.

Looking ahead, the two sides hold great potential for cooperation and share common interests in promoting economic growth and financial stability, coping with the energy crisis, curbing inflation, and pursuing green and digital transitions. As such, they have decided to set up a financial working group under the China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue (HED) mechanism to strengthen cooperation in financial areas such as financial liberalisation, infrastructure, and regulation, as well as sustainable finance and fintech. However, some tension does exist within the relationship – EU authorities have recently opened an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric car imports, for example.

• 2023-11-14 | 16:30 - 19:10
• CEIBS Shanghai Campus

European Chamber IPR Working Group and China IP SME Helpdesk cordially invite you to the joint meeting on IP and Technology Transfer in China – Legal and Practical Considerations for European Business, to be held on Wednesday 8th November, 16.00 - 17.30, at European Chamber Shanghai Office and online.

• 2023-11-08 - 2023-11-08 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

Throughout the past few years, the EU has been revamping its regulatory toolbox in order to better address emerging economic, geopolitical, technological and climate challenges. As a number of these regulations will impact the China operations of European companies, the European Chamber brings to you the Interpreting the EU’s Toolbox Series, where experts will provide an overview of the instruments that are being rolled out. The third episode of the series will focus on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR).

• 2023-10-23 - 2023-10-23 | 15:30 - 16:30
• Online

The EU SME Centre, IP SME Helpdesk and the European Chamber are thus happy to invite you to join our next Working Group meeting, where three experts will share practical tips on how to create a sound strategy to leverage China’s E-Commerce ecosystem and on how to prevent and address IP infringements in this space.

• 2023-06-14 | 15:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405 | Zoom

As the European Chamber’s tradition, it is the time of the year to hold the annual chair/vice-chairs election for the IPR Working Group to lead the working group affairs for the next 12 months.

• 2023-03-30 | 10:00 - 11:30
• Online

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has initiated the public consultation on the Trademark Law (Revised Draft for Comments). For the full draft in Chinese, please visit: 国家知识产权局 通知 国家知识产权局关于《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知 (cnipa.gov.cn).

国家知识产权局开展《中华人民共和国商标法》修改工作，起草了《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》，并向社会各界公开征求意见。稿件全文（中文）：国家知识产权局 通知 国家知识产权局关于《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知 (cnipa.gov.cn).

• 2023-02-14 | 10:00 - 11:25
• Zoom