Dimitri Dovas (Dovas Law) and Shelley Zheng (Advance China IP) present to an audience of manufacturers, lawyers and business people, Dongguan City Science and Technology Museum, Guangdong, P.R. China, 23 June 2007
Being a country with an economy which relies overwhelmingly on exports, China as a whole has been paying much closer attention to foreign intellectual property rights. The province of Guangdong, located on China’s southern coast adjacent to Hong Kong, ranks as the highest volume importer and exporter in China, and the local governments therein are acutely aware of the effects that foreign intellectual property laws have on their local economies. The Dongguan City Science and Technology Bureau sponsored a presentation by Dovas Law and Advance China I.P. Law Office to provide an audience of manufacturers, lawyers and business people an overview of U.S. patent law, addressing the issues of greatest interest to Chinese exporters. In the question & answer session which followed, audience members voiced their many concerns about U.S. patent law as relates to their respective industries.