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Keynotes
Jyh-An Lee is a Professor and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law. He holds a JSD from Stanford Law School and an LLM from Harvard Law School. Professor Lee has published on various aspects of intellectual property and law & technology. He has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune, and South China Morning Post as an expert on intellectual property and internet law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, the US Patent and Trademark Office, the US Copyright Office, the US International Trade Commission, and the European Union (in a WTO dispute-settlement case).
Professor David Tan is presently Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law and Head (Intellectual Property) of the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at NUS Law. He served as Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) at NUS Law from January 2015 to June 2021. David holds PhD, LLB (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Melbourne and an LLM from Harvard. He was also appointed a Professorial Fellow of the AGC-Legal Service Academy in 2024.
At NUS Law, David pioneered courses in Entertainment Law, Fashion Law, Freedom of Speech and Privacy & Data Protection Law. His areas of research cover personality rights, copyright, trademarks, freedom of expression and tort law. He has published over 100 articles, comments, and book chapters since joining NUS Law in 2008.
Speakers
Prof. Peter K. Yu: Peter K. Yu is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor of Law and Communication, and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He is Vice-President of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal. He sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
Prof. Leanne Wiseman: Leanne Wiseman is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Professor in Intellectual Property Law at Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. Leanne is also the Chair of the Australian Repair Network. Leanne is recognised for high quality, interdisciplinary, policy relevant and impactful research that addresses critical questions about the role that IP plays in hindering or enabling access to new digital technologies. Leanne has a particular interest in the legal dimensions of the uptake of digital technologies in agricultural industries in national and international contexts. From this research, Leanne's current research focus has shifted to examining the role that IP can play in hindering or enabling the international Right to Repair, with particular interest of its potential to impact upon the consumer electronics, automotive, agricultural and medical device repair markets. Increasing the ability to repair goods, devices and machines will help keep them in use for longer, thus reducing waste and helping the transition to a circular economy.
Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno: Professor of Law at Waseda University (Tokyo); Director of the Research Centre for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP) of Waseda University. LL.B.(Kyoto), LL.M.(Kyoto). After starting his academic career as a lecturer at Seijo University and as an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Professor Ueno was appointed as a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Waseda University in 2013. He is considered as a leading copyright law specialist in Japan and beyond, and is the author of the Japan part of the multi-volume sets Copyright Throughout the World (edited by Silke von Lewinski, Thomson/West) and International Copyright Law and Practice (edited by Lionel Bently, Matthew Bender). Professor Ueno has been a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich from 2010 to 2011 and a Visiting Scholar at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2019 to 2020.
Natalie Stoianoff is a Professor and Director of the Intellectual Property Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She is also the Chair of the Indigenous Knowledge Forum Committee and a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC). Her international leadership both academically and professionally resulted in her election as the President of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association from 2021-2024, and appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Law, the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Societies for Computers and the Law. Natalie has an extensive track record in investigating the operation of intellectual property law across multiple jurisdictions and cultures. Her interdisciplinary research is concerned with new technologies including the legal, ethical and commercial aspects of those technologies. She is the author of numerous publications, including Commercialisation of Intellectual Property (as lead author, Lexis Nexis, 2019) and Intellectual Property Law: Text and Essential Cases (as co-author, Federation Press), which has been adopted by several Australian universities and is in its fifth edition. She is currently the managing editor of the Lexis Nexis book series for the Indigenous Knowledge Forum.
Prof. Wei Shi: After five years as a judge in Shandong Province, China, in the late 1980s, Professor Wei Shi transitioned to academia, earning his Master’s in Law from Renmin University of China in Beijing. He then joined Shandong University Law School as a lecturer, where he taught until 2000. As part of the EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Program, he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law from 2000 to 2001 before pursuing a PhD in International Law at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. His PhD addresses the multifaceted issues of intellectual property rights enforcement in the global trading system from EU-China perspective. Upon completing his PhD, Wei took up a lectureship at Bangor University in Wales in 2007, later becoming a Reader, where he teaches Intellectual Property Law, Global Trade Law, and International Commercial Arbitration. In 2015, he was appointed as distinguished adjunct professor under China’s National Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts through Nankai University; in 2022, he resumed his association with Shandong University. Professor Shi is widely recognized as a leading scholar in international intellectual property law, particularly at the intersection of intellectual property and global trade. His scholarship is published in prestigious journals, including the American Business Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Wisconsin International Law Journal, North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation, and Texas International Law Journal. His work has been cited by top journals, such as Harvard International Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, European Intellectual Property Review, and Columbia Journal of Asian Law. Professor Shi is a Fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a member of the International Law Association (British Branch) and the Society of Legal Scholars.
Ms. Aafreen Collaco: Ms. Aafreen has experience teaching at leading law schools in India. She holds an LL.B(Hons.) degree from Goa University and LL.M degree in IPR and Technology Law from O.P. Jindal Global University. For her LL.M thesis, she worked on “IP Protection of Computer Software and the Copyleft Movement: An Indian Perspective.” She was awarded the Gold Medal for standing first in LL.M and the Nani A. Palkhiwala Memorial Gold Medal for academic excellence. Over the years, she has emerged as an educator and mentor for law aspirants and continues to serve as an advisor to law schools and budding legal enthusiasts. As the Assistant Director- University Engagement and Partnership, Aafreen provided strategic direction and oversight to the LSAC Global Law Alliance Members. Previously, she has also taught at BITS Laws School, BITS Pilani (Mumbai Campus). Currently, she is a Ph.D. scholar in law at Jindal Global Law School, OPJGU. Her PhD focuses on the intersection between privacy law and data protection in India.
Christophe Gösken is a doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich, Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on how IP laws contribute to the diffusion of culture and how they shape social norms. In his ongoing projects, he empirically investigates the legal, commercial, and societal implications of using e-commerce platforms to sell cultural property. He also analyses consumer preferences and social norms about online piracy laws. Christophe’s recent conference contribution, "Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship, " was awarded “Best Conference Paper” by the 2024 ASIP Conference and by University College London’s Institute for Brand and Innovation Law.
Ms. Lingjun Gao is a PhD candidate at the City University of Hong Kong. She is a research assistant working under the supervision of Dr. Tianxiang He. Lingjun graduated from Minzu University of China (LL.B.) and earned a master's degree at the University of Southern California (LL.M.) in Media and Entertainment Law stream, obtaining fundamental knowledge in relevant industry. She is widely interested in intellectual property law and relevant technology topics. Her recent research focuses on data protection and individual privacy protection issues.
Ms. Fang Guimin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in intellectual property law at School of Law Wuhan University, China. Her current academic interest covers intellectual property law and standardization law. She obtained a master degree in European-International Law through a China-EU cooperation program at the China-EU School of Law from the China University of Political Science and Law in 2022. In that program, her thesis, titled “Bad Faith Registration of Trademarks, a Comparative Study of China and EU’s Practice” was supervised by Prof. Kamperman Sanders from the Maastricht University and received a grade of 89/100.
Wenting Huang is a lecturer of Yantai University Intellectual Property Research Institute and a visiting scholar of Peking University Law School. She published articles on European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice and Peking University Law Journal. She also published a book, Research on Merchandising Right, with Law Press China. Wenting received her Doctor of Jurisprudence at the Indiana University-Bloomington. Before that, she obtained her LLM degree in Legal Institutions at Wisconsin University Law School as well as her LLM degree in Intellectual Property at Washington University Law School. Wenting studied her LLB degree in Chinese Intellectual Property at Yantai University Law School. She also fulfilled her BS degree in Computer Information and Management at Shandong University. Wenting is qualified to practice as an attorney in both China and New York.
Dr. Li Guangyu (李光宇): Li Guangyu is a PhD graduate from the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He also holds a J.M. (PKU) and an LL.B (SYSU). His research focuses on intellectual property law, particularly copyright law, as well as comparative law and empirical legal studies. His recent work on hyperlinking, titled "A compromise approach to linking regulation in VG Bild-Kunst and lesson learned: a comparison with China," has been published in the European Intellectual Property Review.
Li Linfan is the PhD candidate at Renmin University of China, School of Law, and also an assistant at Tsinghua University Institute for Intelligent Law. Her main research areas are Intellectual Property Law and AI & Law. She has published several academic papers on Chinese journals, including "How to Protect Trademarks in Other Countries", "Copyright Problems in Cosplay" and "The Main Norm in Internet Competition ". She is currently focusing on the protection of economic rights under the significant technological and internet-related changes. She can be reached at lilinfan189@163.com.
Xi Lin is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University specializing in copyright, with a focus on the limitations and exceptions of copyright protection. Her research explores comparative copyright frameworks across China, the US, and the EU, with a particular emphasis on Germany. She has made academic contribution to the restrictions on copyright, contributing to a nuanced understanding of how copyright systems adapt to diverse economic, cultural and legal contexts. At this conference, she looks forward to engaging with the complex challenges generative artificial intelligence presents to the scope and reach of copyright protection, aiming to advance discourse in this evolving field.
Dr. Lu Yue: Yue is a Lecturer of law at Shandong University. She holds a PhD degree from the University of Leeds. Her primary research interest falls in the multifaceted issues of intellectual property law and technology law in the digital era. She recently published articles in The Journal of World Intellectual Property and European Intellectual Property Review.
Dr. Ma Xiao: Ma Xiao is an Assistant Professor of Law at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). She teaches Intellectual Property Law to undergraduate and postgraduate students at HUST Law School. Her main research interests are in the area of Intellectual Property Law, with particular interests in Comparative Studies of Copyright Law and On-line Intermediaries’ Copyright Liabilities. She has published articles in academic journals in the US, UK, and Korea. Her leading publications include Regulating Peer-to-Peer Technology in China: Inspiration from the United Kingdom (Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, SSCI), To Increase Damages of Intellectual Property Infringement in China: A Double-Edged Sword for the Market (Journal of World Trade, SSCI). Ma Xiao is currently the General Secretary of APCA.
Song Hongsong is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Law School of Yantai University, director of the IP Institute of Yantai University, a doctor of law at the University of Queensland, Australia, a practicing lawyer, an expert of the National Intellectual Property Expert Pool, a Councilor of Standing Board of the China Intellectual Property Law Research Society. He has undertaken seven national and provincial projects, including the National Social Science Foundation, the China Scholarship Fund, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, the State Intellectual Property Office. His papers have been published on academic journals, such as WIPO Journal, European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, China Copyright, Intellectual Property.
Dr Angelia Jia WANG is an Associate Professor at the Law School, Durham University. Before joining Durham Law School in 2020, she taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has been a Research Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society (now the Berkman Klein Centre) and a Postdoc Fellow at the Law School, Singapore Management University. She is a Co-director of the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy and a Director of the Academic Committee of the Asian Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Her research interests lie in intellectual property law and the intersection between law and technology. She wrote about cultural heritage, 3D printing, video games, and artificial intelligence. She publishes with Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law and Practise, European Intellectual Property Review, Hong Kong Law Journal, European Review of Private Law, Asian Pacific Law Review and a monograph with Springer.
Mr. Xie Qingchuan is an Associate Professor at the Law School and the institute of Intellectual Property and Competition Law of Wuhan University. His main areas of research are trademark and copyright law. He has published papers in English and Chinese in academic journals such as Chinese Journal of Law（法学研究） and The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, and as a co-author published a chapter in the book Intellectual Property, Privacy and Data Protection: Defending the Public Interest in a post-COVID era, which is published by Edward & Elgar in 2023. He has won the “Top Ten Young Scholars‘ Outstanding Paper Award” of China Intellectual Property Law Research Association for five consecutive years, and the “Outstanding Paper Award” of the “Greater China Young Intellectual Property Scholars’ Forum” hold by University of Hong Kong in 2017.
Dr. Xu Shuwen: Shuwen Xu is a postdoctoral research fellow at Shandong University School of Law. She is a graduate of University of Minnesota (B.A.), Columbia University (M.Ed. & M.A.) and University of Iowa (J.D.). Her research is centered around the intersection between international intellectual property laws and public policy concerns (i.e. public health and discrimination). Her research has been published in the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy. Her most recent article, The 2024 WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources: Dawn of a New Day? is forthcoming in the Stanford Journal of International Law.
Ms Nivedha Venkataramani is currently an LLM student studying for the SQEs at the University of Law, Bristol. Previously, she studied an LLM in Intellectual Property Law at Durham University and completed her LLB Law at the University of Exeter. Her past research experience comprises of the Cast in Stone project in South-West England and an SRA funded study that explored qualification attainment gaps within ethnic minorities. Both these projects were undertaken at the University of Exeter. Her research interests lie in intellectual property law, cultural heritage law, art law and technology.
Zhonghao Xu is a Ph.D. candidate in international law at the Law School and the Intellectual Property School of Jinan University. During his doctoral studies, under the tutelage of Professor Liu Ying, he contributed to the completion of a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation, entitled Research on Cross-border E-commerce Construction from the Perspectives of International and Domestic Law. He has also developed a profound research interest in cutting-edge fields such as brain-computer interface technology, publishing multiple academic papers that delve into the legal and ethical concerns pertaining to this technology. His accomplishments encompass obtaining the second prize at the Ninth Lihu Forum on Intellectual Property Law and being chosen to present at the Fourth National Doctoral Forum on Publishing Studies.
Ms. You Kexin is a PhD candidate at the University of Macau, majoring in International Law. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.M.) in International Economic Law and worked as a research assistant to Professor Shixue Hu. Her main research interests are international investment arbitration, generative AI and law, and intellectual property protection, with particular interests in combining AI technology and law. Her most recent article, The Jurisdictional Maze: Dual Nationality in International Investment Arbitration is forthcoming in the Asian International Arbitration Journal of Singapore International Arbitration Centre.
Yu, Huici, PhD student of International Business Law and Dispute Resolution Programme, University of Macau. Research Interests: Arbitration Law, Intellectual Property Law.
Dr. Zhang Jinping (張金平): Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, China. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School, and has been selected as one of Beijing's Top 100 Young Talents in Law. His research focus on copyright Law and regulation on data cross-border flows.