AIPPI China committee hosted 2017 AIPPI China Youth Forum during August 18 and August 19 in Beijing. Unitalen partner, Dr. Wei Pan, was invited to deliver a speech on “the impact of Beijing higher court’s patent infringement determination guides on patent agency”.

Starting from the significance of the interpretation of patent claims, Dr. Pan’s introduced the different attitudes held by SIPO for patent examination and by courts during infringement litigations toward the protection scope of functional characteristics, further extended to the comparative study between US and China patent practices in handling functional characteristics, and concluded with his sharing of adaptive strategy.