8:45 ~ 9:00

Registration

9:00 ~ 9:15

Signing Ceremony

Extension of the Bayer IP Chair at the Sino-German School for Postgraduate Studies at Tongji University

9:20 ~ 10:00

Welcome Remarks

- SIPO Leader

- Dr. Wolfgang Plischke, Member of the Board of Management, Bayer AG

- Tongji Leader

10:00 ~ 10:30

Dr. KONG Xiangjun

Chief Judge of IP Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court

Topic: Recent decisions in patent law with relevance to the pharmaceutical industry

10:30 ~ 11:00

Dr. Klaus Grabinski

Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Germany)

Topic: Patent enforcement - the German approach

11:00 ~ 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 ~ 12:00

Mr. ZHANG Qingkui

Director-General, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Division, SIPO

Topic: Pharmaceutical patent prosecution and protection practice after the Third Patent Law Amendment

12:00 ~ 13:15

Lunch

13:15 ~ 13:45

Dr. Lothar Steiling

Senior IP Advisor, Bayer AG

Topic: Are Life Science patents different?

13:45 ~ 14:15

Prof. Dr. SONG Xiaoting

Professor , Intellectual Property Institute/Law School, Tongji University

Topic: Chinese patent law in the field of Chinese medicine

14:15 ~ 14:45

Dr. Joerg Thomaier

Chief Intellectual Property Counsel - Corporate Head of IP, Bayer Group

Topic: U.S. Patent litigation - A perspective of an inventors’ company

14:45 ~ 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 ~ 15:45

Dr. Oliver Lutze

Head of IPR, Bayer (China) Ltd.

Topic: How to capture inventions for an inventors’ company

15:45 ~ 16:15

Prof. Dr. LV Guoqiang

Director-General, Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration

Topic: Exploitation and practice of IP pledge and financing

16:15 ~ 17:00

Podium Discussion with selected speakers: Patents in the life sciences field (Moderator: Thomas Pattloch, IP Officer EU Delegation Beijing)