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The IP Academy (Singapore) and Fordham University School of Law will be jointly hosting the 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day in New York City on 26th March 2008. It will precede the Fordham University School of Law’s Annual Conference on International IP Law and Policy which will be held on 27th and 28th March 2008.

Asian IP Law and Policy Day provides a platform for open dialogue and exchange of key developments in IP law and policy in Asia and considers how global trends in IP law and policy will impact Asia. This year, the 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day focuses on the development of the legal ecosystem for IP in Asia. As Asia increases the amount of the world’s IP assets, how has the IP legal landscape in the region been developing?

Join our distinguished speakers, including leading IP academics, practitioners and policy makers from Singapore, India, China, Japan, and Thailand, in discussion and share their views and insights on the development of the legal ecosystem for Intellectual Property in Asia at the 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day.

In particular, the 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day will feature sessions on:

• The Future Role of Antitrust Laws in Regulating the Use of IP Rights in Asia;

• The Securitisation of Intellectual Property Rights in Asia – Trends and Future Expectations;

• Asian Tech Transfer and Revenue Sharing with Researchers, a Developing Model;

• Why do Developing Countries Fail to Use IP as a Tool for Development?; and

• Patents as a Corporate Asset: Reflections from an Asian Perspective.

Conference Co-Directors

• Prof. Hugh C. Hansen, Professor and Director, Intellectual Property Law Institute, Fordham University School of Law

• Prof. David Llewelyn, Professor, King's College London; and External Director and Deputy Chairman, IP Academy (Singapore)

Speakers include

Name	Designation
Mr. Weerawit Weeraworawit	Deputy Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, Kingdom of Thailand.
Assoc. Prof. Burton Ong	Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore .
Mr. Thomas Cheng	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong.
Mr Jeremy Leong Zhi Jia	Formerly IP Academy (Singapore); currently M.A.L.D. candidate, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Mr. Mustafa Safiyuddin	Partner, DSK Legal, Mumbai, India.
Mr. Donal O’Connell	Director of Intellectual Property, Nokia, United Kingdom.
Ms. Shimako Kato	Patent Attorney, Abe, Ikubo and Katayama, Japan.
Prof. Brian Fitzgerald	Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation, Law Faculty, Queensland University of Technology.
Mr. Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi	PhD candidate, Law Faculty, Queensland University of Technology.
Prof. Wang Qian	Associate Professor, East China University of Politics and Law.
Prof. Mary Wong	Professor of Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Mr. Ho Cheng Huat	Director, IP Academy (Singapore).
Dr. Stanley Lai	Partner, Allen & Gledhill, Singapore.
Prof. Peter K. Yu	Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School.
Assoc. Prof. Susanna Leong	Associate Professor, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore.
Ms. Daphne Zografos	Lecturer, School of Law, University of Reading, United Kingdom.

To view the detailed programme and registation form, click [here]

Join the IP Academy (Singapore) and Fordham University School of Law at the 5th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day.

To register, print the registration form and mail, fax or email it with the required payment to: Office of Public Programming & CLE, Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street, Room 05-B, New York, NY 10023-7485. Fax: 212-636-6984, Email: cle@law.fordham.edu

For further information and registration details, please refer to http://www.fordhamipconference.com/