Speaker Profiles : International Conference on Building Respect for Intellectual Property – Stimulating Innovation and Creativity

Lu Guoqiang, Director General, Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA), Shanghai, China

Lu Guoqiang serves as Director General of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA) and Secretary General of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Joint Committee. He previously served as Chief Judge in the Intellectual Property Division of the Shanghai High People’s Court, and Vice President of Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court. Mr. Lu Guoqiang is also Deputy Director General of the China Intellectual Property Society, Director General of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Law Society and a Ph.D. Supervisor at Tongji University and East China University of Political Science and Law.

Mr. Lu Guoqiang was awarded the honorary title of “National Expert on Trial Practice” by the Supreme People’s Court of China. He is also one of the “National Leading IP Talents in China” and the “Top 10 Most Influential People for IPR Protection in China”. He has twice been listed among the “Top 50 Influential People in IP” by Managing Intellectual Property.

Minelik Alemu Getahun, Assistant Director General, Global Issues Sector, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Assistant Director General (ADG), Minelik Alemu Getahun (Ethiopia) oversees the Sector for Global Issues.  The Sector brings together a number of programs that address cross-cutting issues, including traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources;  building respect for IP;  IP and global challenges as well as external relations. 

Before joining WIPO, Mr. Getahun served as the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the UN Offices at Geneva and in Vienna, other international organizations in Switzerland and in Vienna.  He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia to Switzerland and (non-resident) to Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.  He was the legal advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and held different diplomatic positions.  He served as a member of the African Union Commission on International Law.

He holds a Master’s degree in Public International Law from University College London and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Addis Ababa University.

Eun-Joo Min, Senior Legal Counsellor, Building Respect for IP Division, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Eun-Joo Min, a national of the Republic of Korea, heads the policy and international cooperation work of the Building Respect for IP Division, facilitating multilateral dialogue on IP enforcement and building respect for IP.  Prior to her current position, Ms. Min was Head of the Legal Development Section, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, where she covered the development and implementation of new alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures for IP disputes. 

Ms. Min holds a Ph.D. in law from Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, a certificate degree in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Affairs in Geneva, Switzerland, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, United States of America.  She taught law at Yonsei University prior to joining WIPO in February 2000 and was an Adjunct Professor at Sogang Law School in 2013 and 2014.

Ms. Min has been a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Medicines Patent Pool since 2011 and is the author of a number of publications on IP enforcement and dispute resolution, including a chapter on cross-border intellectual property enforcement in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press).

Elliot Papageorgiou, Executive, Rouse Shanghai, China, and Chair, IPR Working Group, European Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC), Shanghai, China

Elliot Papageorgiou advises international companies on contentious and non-contentious IP issues, with a special focus on litigation and enforcement in China and the Asia-Pacific.  He was awarded the ILO Client Choice Award in 2013, 2015 and 2016 by the International Law Office and voted a “China IP – Leading Lawyer” in the Asia law Survey in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.  Elliot is “Recommended” for China IP in the Legal 500, ranked in the World Trade Mark Review list of 1000 leading Trade Mark Practitioners 2011-2016 as well as the Intellectual Asset Management’s (IAM) list of “Patent Litigation Top 250 Practitioners 2011 and 2012” and“Patent 1000 list of leading patent practitioners 2012-2016”.

Wang Binying, Deputy Director General, Brands and Designs Sector, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Wang Binying, a national of China, joined WIPO in 1992.  In December 2009, she was appointed as Deputy Director General responsible for the Brands and Designs Sector and reappointed for a second mandate in December 2014. 

The Sector has responsibility for the development of international law in the framework of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT).  The Sector also administers the International Registration Systems for trademarks (Madrid Agreement and Protocol), industrial designs (Hague Agreement) and appellations of origin (Lisbon Agreement).

Ms. Wang’s academic background is in English language, communication, transportation and law.  She graduated from the Zhongnan University in Changsha, China, in the 1970s, and holds a Master’s degree in Law, including industrial property, from the Law School of University of California (Berkeley) in the USA.  She was also awarded a Diploma in American Law from the Columbia Law School in New York.

Prior to joining WIPO, Ms. Wang worked in the Ministry of Communication and Transportation of China from 1975 to 1980, during which time she was stationed in the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.  She later served in the State General Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), and was in charge of the Department for Registration and Supervision of Foreign Company and Trade-names, and the China Trademark Service, an institution under the SAIC until 1992.

Alicja Adamczak, President, Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw, Poland

Alicja Adamczak holds a Ph.D. in Law with a doctoral thesis entitled Role of a Patent Attorney in Patent Proceedings.  A graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw, Poland, she passed the judge’s exam and is a Patent Attorney, Legal Advisor and Assistant Professor at Kielce University of Technology.  Currently, Dr. Adamczak is a Member of the Administrative Council and Budget and Finance Committee of the European Patent Organization and a Member of the Administrative Council of Visegrad Patent Institute.  She acted as the President of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys.

Dr. Adamczak has been actively involved in legislative work on bills regulating IP.  She is a member of numerous national and international organizations and associations and has been repeatedly awarded for her professional and social activities and engagement.  She authored many initiatives popularizing IP protection and innovation, promoting Polish achievements abroad, transferring knowledge from universities to industry and supporting IP education among children, teenagers and students.

Getachew Mengistie Alemu, IP Law Consultant and Attorney,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Getachew Mengistie Alemu studied IP law and earned a Master of Laws Degree from Queen Mary & West Field College, University of London, in 1990.  He was the driving force in the establishment and implementation of the IP system in Ethiopia.  He drafted most of the present IP laws of Ethiopia and headed the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office as its first Director General until August 2008.

Mr. Mengistie successfully implemented or contributed to the implementation of a number of projects aiming at strengthening the IP system and promoting the use of IP as a tool for development in African countries.  He has authored or co-authored a number of works on IP and related issues, and is a frequent speaker on topics related to IP in national, sub-regional, regional, interregional and international fora.

Rui Wenbiao, Deputy Director General, Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA), Shanghai, China

Rui Wenbiao obtained his Bachelor of Law degree at the East China University of Political Science and Law in 1992 and a Juris Master degree from the same university in 1996. He engaged in judicial work in local courts from 1999, and was the Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Division and a member of the Adjudicatory Committee, Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court. After that, he became the Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Division and a member of the Adjudicatory Committee, Shanghai High People’s Court. He transferred to a new government post as Deputy Director General of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA) in 2015. Mr. Rui is also a Master’s supervisor at the East China University of Political Science and Law, and a guest researcher at the IP Research Center of Fudan University.

Maximiliano Santa Cruz, Director General, National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI), Ministry of Economy, Santiago, Chile

Mr. Maximiliano Santa Cruz is the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI), a position he has held since October 2009.  During his mandate, INAPI has played a key role in Chile's national innovation system and became one of the 20 International Search and Preliminary Examination Authorities under Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Prior to this, he worked in the Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization (WTO), in charge, among other things, of IP issues at WIPO, WTO and the World Health Organization (WHO).  He was the Chair of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents for two periods (June 2008 – May 2011).  From 1999 to 2004, before moving to Geneva, he was Chile’s head negotiator of the IP groups in relation to a number of free trade agreements.  He has also delivered lectures on IP both in Chile and abroad and has authored a number of papers on the topic.  He is currently the Chairman of the Expert Advisory Group of the Medicines Patent Pool, the PCT Working Group of WIPO and PROSUR, an integration forum formed by 8 South American IP Offices.

Zhang Zhicheng, Deputy Director General, Protection and Coordination Department, State Intellectual Property Office, Beijing, China

Zhang Zhicheng is the Deputy Director General of the Protection and Coordination Department at the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) and has worked for SIPO since 1995.  Mr. Zhang has led and joined many important research activities entrusted by SIPO, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce, the Secretariat of the Asia‑Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and other government agencies and international organizations.  He has also authored a dozen publications on IP in various journals, translated in cooperation with others many academic works, and published research on IP strategy.  From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Zhang participated in the research and formulation work of the national IP strategy, and became one of the principal members of the formulation group for the Out of the National IP Strategy.

Philip Mendes, Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Philip Mendes practiced as a technology transactions lawyer for 25 years, commercializing IP for universities and other technology owners.  For most of that time he was also engaged as a consultant to universities and government, advising on innovation policy, IP policy, technology transfer office best practice, and commercialization improvement.

He is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where he teaches a course on the management and commercialization of IP in the QUT-WIPO Master of Laws in Intellectual Property program.  He was appointed by the Australian Government to its Advisory Council on Intellectual Property, on which he served for 6 years, contributing to the Council’s work of providing advice and recommendations to the Australian Government on IP and innovation policy, including areas for policy and legislative change.

Mr. Mendes is passionate about innovation, IP, and its management and commercialization, both at a policy level, as well as at the implementation level.

Chen Yaodong, Director IP APAC of Akzo Nobel, Shanghai, China

Yaodong Chen is a Licensed US and PRC lawyer with over 20 years of practicing experience. As a well-known expert in IP dispute resolution, he has served many years as an arbitrator in CIETAC. Mr. Chen has long been engaged in intellectual property development, strategic planning and legislative proposals. Mr. Chen had been a key speaker in many international IP forums sharing his insights and experience on patent and trade secret management, transactions and protections. He is one of the chief editors and key authors of a recently published book New Trends of Intellectual Property Rights – Practice and Essentials.

Xing Dongsheng, Executive Director, Shanghai Brand Development Research Centre, Shanghai, China

Xing Dongsheng is the Executive Director of the Shanghai Brand Development Research Centre，focusing on international or national brand management and commercialization.  He is also the Vice President of the Shanghai Trademark Association and the Shanghai Intellectual Property Society, as well as Expert Member of the China Intellectual Property Research Institute, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Arbitration Committee and the China Trademark Association.

Mr. Xing used to be the Division Director of the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce, responsible for trademark supervision and law enforcement.  He was also the Secretary General of the Shanghai Famous Trademark Determination Committee.  Mr. Xing has accumulated rich experiences on handling complicated trademark cases and guiding Chinese enterprises to manage their brands in his 30-year professional career.  In 2011, he was named as one of the “ten most influential people for IPR protection in China in the year 2010” by the SIPO, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) and the National Administration for Copyright (NCAC) of the People’s Republic of China.

 

Yun Zhanyou, Deputy Director of Technology Center, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co. Ltd., Hohhot, China

Yun Zhanyou received his Master’s degree from  Dalian University of Technology in 1988, and started his career as lecturer in the Food and Fermentation Engineering Department of Dalian Light Industry

University. In1992, he became a researcher at the Biochemical Engineering Institute of Dalian University of Technology. In 1997, he was sent by the Education Ministry of China to study in Japan and received a Monbusho Scholarship from the Japanese Government for his Ph.D. studies. In 2003, he returned from Japan and joined the Yili Dairy Group, where he currently acts as director of the technology center.

Aside from his position at Yili, Dr. Yun is a guest professor at both the China Agricultural University and the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, a member of the International Dairy Federation (IDF)

Standing Committee on Dairy Science and Technology, a member of the Technological Committee of the Chinese Dairy Industry Association and a member of the council of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology.

 

He Min, Dean and Ph.D. Tutor, Intellectual Property School, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

He Min is Dean and Professor at the Intellectual Property School of the East China University of Political Science and Law.  He is a member of the academic committee and academic degree committee of the University.  He holds a Doctorate in Law from the Université de Paris I.

Professor He specializes in basic theories of IP, IP management, patent law, optimization of patent resources and employment invention.  He serves as the designated advisory expert of the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Government.  He is also an Adjunct Professor and Co-Ph.D. Tutor of Aix‑Marseille University.  He is the Executive Director of the China Society of Science and Technology Law and an  arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and the Wuhan Arbitration Commission.

Roger Kampf, Counsellor, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva, Switzerland

Roger Kampf is from Hamburg, Germany.  He joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in May 2004 and works as a Counsellor in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division.  He is responsible for the WTO Secretariat's work in the area of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and public health and enforcement, as well as for technical assistance in relation to IP.  He is currently also acting as the TRIPS Council Secretary.  

Mr. Kampf previously worked for the European Commission at its headquarters in Brussels and at the permanent representation in Geneva, where he was responsible for IP issues in WTO and WIPO, as well as for government procurement, from 1998 to 2004.  Prior to this, he was involved in negotiations on financial services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and also worked as an Assistant in public law and European Communities law at the University of Hamburg.  Mr. Kampf holds a law degree from the University of Hamburg and a degree in public administration from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris.  He has published on various aspects of EC and WTO law.

Guennadi Koupai, Assistant to the Director, National Center for Patents and Information (NCPI), Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Guennadi Koupai is currently the Assistant to the Director of the Patent Office of Tajikistan.  Since 2013, he has also taught courses on IP at the branch of Lomonosov, Moscow State University, in Dushanbe.

His previous professional experience includes:  Assistant Lecturer on computer sciences and control theory at Tajik State University (1982-1989);  Senior Researcher of the laboratory of ecological examination at the Institute for Water Protection (1989-1991);  and Head of the Automation Department of the Patent Office (1993-1996).  Mr. Koupai also served as the First Deputy Director of the Patent Office of Tajikistan from 1996 to 2010, and participated in the work of the working group on Tajikistan’s accession to WTO.

Mr. Koupai received his Ph.D. in Automation of Technological Processes from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow in 1989.  He has written more than 50 publications and is the author of the 1996 emblem of the Eurasian Patent Organization

Louise van Greunen, Director, Building Respect for IP Division, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Louise van Greunen, admitted as Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, joined WIPO in 1996.  Prior to her appointment, Ms. Van Greunen was a public prosecutor in the criminal courts, lectured law, and was the Registrar of Patents, Trademarks, Copyright and Designs of South Africa.  In addition to administering the IP Office, she was also the Hearing Officer at the Tribunal of the Register of Trademarks, where she had the judicial competence of a single judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa.

Ms. Van Greunen joined WIPO as a Senior Legal Counselor, assisting English-speaking developing countries, at their request, to adopt TRIPS‑compliant legislation.  In 2002, she became the Deputy Director of the WIPO Enforcement and Special Projects Division.  In 2010, she was appointed as the Director of the same Division, now renamed Building Respect for IP Division. 

In her current role she is responsible for policy dialogue in the context of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement.  The Division serves Member States in, inter alia, areas of legislative assistance on the implementation of Part III of the TRIPS Agreement;  training and capacity building for law enforcement officials, as well as colloquia for the judiciary;  public awareness, and strategic cooperation.  She was also Chair of the Steering Group at the 6th Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris.