RCLIP is excited to welcome more than 250 speakers and guests for the 7th IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference on 4-6 April, 2025. Please see the conference program and a campus map with conference venues below:
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Room 106, 8th Building
WELCOME REMARKS
Masahiko Gemma, Vice President, Waseda University
Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
Irene Calboli, IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
OPENING KEYNOTES
Hasan Kleib, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
Johanna Hill, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
Takuya Yasui, Director, Multilateral Policy Office, Japan Patent Office
Takeshi Iizuka, Executive Director, Japan Patent Attorneys Association
GROUP PHOTO SESSION Room 106, 8th Building
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS (1)
Session 1.A – TRADEMARKS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Room 308, 8th Building
Chair: Nari Lee
Presenters: Ni Ketut Supasti Dharmawan, Amit Jamsandekar, Putu Aras Samsithawrati, Shahrina Anis Samsudin, Bram Van Wiele
Session 1.B – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COPYRIGHT: ONGOING CONVERSATIONS Room 309, 8th Building
Chair: Tatsuhiro Ueno
Presenters: Yangzi Li, Manjula Mallepalli, Tao Qian, Li Yang, Yiyan Zhang
Session 1.C – TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS: QUO VADIS? Room 310, 8th Building
Chair: Miranda Ayu Palar
Presenters: Priyanka Sonowal & S. Chakravarthy Naik, Veena, Anil Vishwakarma, Naigen Zhang, Yunita Putri & Rohaini
Session 1.D – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND (PUBLIC) HEALTH Room 311, 8th Building
Chair: Timo Minssen
Presenters: Nidhi Mehrotra & M. Padmavati, Subhash Chandra Roy, Tanwi Shams & Bhargav Das, Peter Immanuel D. Tenido, Chun-Chieh Wang & Dar-Zen Chen
Session 1.E – HOW DOES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY APPLY TO DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES? Room 312, 8th Building
Chair: Arzu Oguz
Presenters: Lee Ting Cho, Shimei Huang, Tae Man Kim, Daria Kim, Jaeok Min
Session 1.F – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND GENDER Room 313, 8th Building
Chair: Leanne Wiseman
Presenters: Noura Almutairi & Karnika Barnal, Seonghee Bae & Taehoon Kim, Ajoy Jose, Sato Naito, Salman Shahzad
Session 1.G – PERSPECTIVES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMMERCIALIZATION Room 408, 8th Building
Chair: Yoshiyuki Tamura
Presenters: Parulian Paidi Aritonang & Henny Marlyna, A.K. Balaji, Valerii Lisitsa, Ngoc Phuong Hong Nguyen, Ria Putri & Tristiyanto Kom
8:15 am – 8:45 am REGISTRATION Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
8:45 am – 10:30 am PARALLEL SESSIONS (2)
Session 2.A – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION Room 308, 8th Building Chair: Le Ma Presenters: Jingjing Hu, Cheryl Long, Debmita Mondal, Yang Chen
Session 2.B – TRADEMARKS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Room 309, 8th Building Chair: Henny Marlyna Presenters: Nur Syakirah Maimun Aqsha & Dennis Khong, Julien Cabay & Thomas Vandamme, Hina Kausar, Nicola Lucchi & Enrico Bonadio
Session 2.C – THE IMPACT OF IP ON INNOVATION Room 310, 8th Building Chair: Ben Hopper Presenters: Peter Lee, Huei-Ru Dong & Szu-chia Lo, Althaf Marsoof, Yan Wang
Session 2.D – DEVELOPMENTS IN IP ENFORCEMENT Room 311, 8th Building Chair: Van Anh Le Presenters: Jacob George Panickasseril, Rina Arum Prastyanti, Fen Tian, Saliltorn Thongmeensuk
Session 2.E – FROM CINDERELLA TO THE MAIN STAGE: DESIGN Room 312, 8th Building Chair: Jyh-An Lee Presenters: Sergül Balsever, Lung-Sheng Chen, Jianwei Dang, Yuewen Wang & Lexi Liu, Zehra Özkan Üner, Keita Sato
Session 2.F – REINVENTING COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL WORLD? Room 313, 8th Building Chair: Xiuqin Lin Presenters: Chengzhe Ning, Anna Pokrovskaya & Lianqi Cui, T.H. Rathnayake & Rashmi Gunawardana, Khujayev Shokhjakhon
Session 2.G – GREEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Room 408, 8th Building Chair: Takeshi Maeda Presenters: Barasha Borthakur, Samuel Andrews & Samia Hassan, Lakmali Fonseka & Rashmi Gunawardana, Zinatul Ashiqin Zainol
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break Room 303, 8th Building
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS (3)
Session 3.A – RESOLVING IP DISPUTES Room 308, 8th Building Chair: Valerii Lisitsa Presenters: Xiuqin Lin, Saad Nusrullah, Emeric Prevost, Ahmed Essa M H Al-Sulaiti, Amal Srivastava & Rajat Agrawal
Session 3.B – COPYRIGHT, ARTS, AND SPORT EVENTS Room 309, 8th Building Chairs: Nicola Lucchi & Enrico Bonadio Presenters: Simiao Feng, Lucky George, Yutong Li, Huaquan Yang
Session 3.C – DEVELOPMENTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS Room 310, 8th Building Chair: Gargi Chakrabarti Presenters: Nidhi Buch, Justin Hughes, Khushi Kesari & Shivani Singh, I Gede Agus Kurniawan, Sonali Agnihotri & Abhijeet Mishra
Session 3.D – AI AND COPYRIGHT: THE ONGOING DANCE Room 311, 8th Building Chair: Peter Lee Presenters: Tianxiang He, Jyh-An Lee, Keita Takano, Leslie Wellington Sirora, Jiyu Zhang
Session 3.E – PATENTS AND AI Room 312, 8th Building Chair: Christoph Rademacher & Roberto Carapeto Presenters: Lital Helman & Gideon Parchomovsky, Mohd Imran, Zarina Iqbal, Arzu Oguz, Abhijeet Kumar
Session 3.F – IP AND DATA Room 313, 8th Building Chair: Jeremy de Beer Presenters: Kui Cai, Tong Liu, Alexander Lou, Yuyang Tian, Nuobeier Chen
Session 3.G – ONLINE IP ENFORCEMENT Room 408, 8th Building Chair: Althaf Marsoof Presenters: Saeedeh Mazinanian, Van Anh Le & Vinh Ha Hoang, Sanqiang Qu, Mingzhu Zhang
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch Break Okuma Garden House
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm GROUP PHOTO SESSION In front of Okuma Auditorium
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS (4)
Session 4.A – COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Room 308, 8th Building Chair: Tianxiang He Presenters: Yoojin Lee, Cristiana Sappa, Maria Angerhofer, Qianyun Bi, Eun Chang Choi
Session 4.B – PATENTS, MEDICINES, AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION Room 309, 8th Building Chair: Naigen Zhang Presenters: Xiaoyu Fan, M Hawin, Rujitha Shenoy, Chao-Chih Hsueh & Mu-Hsuan Huang, Habiba Sheikh & Niharika Bhattacharya
Session 4.C – MORE ABOUT TRADEMARKS … Room 310, 8th Building Chair: Julien Cabay Presenters: Guimin Fang, Bon Gyoung Goo, Henny Marlyna, Monika Yadav, Ryan Whalen
Session 4.D – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEORY AND INNOVATION Room 311, 8th Building Chair: Justin Hughes Presenters: Ben Hopper, Dennis Khong, Biyu Ma & Yue Qing, Marc Mimler, Nur Arfah Mustapha & Evan Hanif Dwi Novianto, Aneel Sagar et al.
Session 4.E – MORE ON THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COPYRIGHT DEBATE Room 312, 8th Building Chair: Abdumumin Yuldashov Presenters: Wangjie Chen, Stefan Papastefanou, Laina Rafianti, Ho Minh Thanh & Doan Duc Luong, Linfan Li
Session 4.F – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Room 313, 8th Building Chair: Qi Jun Kwong Presenters: Hsaio-Fen Hsu, Parul Sinha, Leanne Wiseman, Sunanda Bharti, Shambhavi Tripathi
Session 4.G – THE (COMPLEX) DISCUSSION ON DATA, TECHNOLOGY, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Room 408, 8th Building Chair: Gideon Parchomovsky Presenters: Li-Ru Chen, Lingjun Gao, Le Ma, Priyanka Dhar, Saifei Wang
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm PLENARY ROUNDTABLE – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A TURBULENT WORLD: WHAT ROLE FOR ACADEMICS AND INSTITUTIONS? Room 106, 8th Building Chair: Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University Presenters:
- Roshan Khan, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, World Trade Organization
- Bernard Ong, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
- Irene Calboli, IP and Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
- Justin Hughes, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
- Nari Lee, Hanken School of Economics
- Xiuqin Lin, School of Law, Xiamen University
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Conference Dinner RIHGA Royal Hotel
Sunday, 6 April 2025
8:15 am – 8:45 am REGISTRATION Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
8:45 am – 10:45 am PARALLEL SESSIONS (5)
Session 5.A – TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, GENETIC RESOURCES, AND BENEFIT SHARING Room 308, 8th Building Chair: Lihini De Silva Presenters: Shubham Anand et al., Miranda Ayu Palar & Laina Rafianti, Gyandeep Chaudhary & Laxmi Kumari, Elnur Karimov, Paramita DasGupta
Session 5.B – THE ROLE OF TRADE SECRETS FOR INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT Room 309, 8th Building Chair: Jeremy de Beer Presenters: Xueni Chen & Chunming Xu, Deli Cheng & Xiaoguang Shan, Lingzi Liu, Dai Yokomizo
Session 5.C – FROM IDEAS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS Room 310, 8th Building Chair: Dennis Khong Presenters: Nobuya Fukugawa, Xing Le Kong, Fennieka Kristianto, Bui Thi Xuan & Le Thi Thu Ha, Hong-Wen Tsai
Session 5.D – AI AND COPYRIGHT: THE DANCE CONTINUES Room 311, 8th Building Chair: Cristiana Sappa Presenters: Xinmeng Li, Mani Pratap et al., Viktoriia Savina, Szu-Yuan Wang, Ludi Jiang
Session 5.E – MEDICINES, DIAGNOSTICS, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Room 312, 8th Building Chair: Ichiro Nakayama Presenters: Kiyoshi Adachi, Gargi Chakrabarti & Lopamudra Dutta, Zidi Wu, Paulo Lozano, Huaiyin Zhang
Session 5.F – IP ENFORCEMENT: COMPARING AND LEARNING Room 313, 8th Building Chair: Hao-Yun Chen & Rostam Neuwirth Presenters: Ajay Kumar Sharma, Yii-Der Su, Jingying Jiang, Paul Gugliuzza
Session 5.G – COPYRIGHT, SOCIAL NETWORK, AND MUCH MORE … Room 408, 8th Building Chair: Tao Qian Presenters: Angga Priancha, Kirtika Sahu & Avnish Mishra, Hongqian Zhou, Zijun Yang
10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break Room 303, 8th Building
11:00 am – 1:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS (6)
Session 6.A – AI AND IP: THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERFACE Room 308, 8th Building Chair: Paul Gugliuzza Presenters: Qi Jun Kwong, Kateryna Militsyna, Edy Santoso, Anna Ubaydullaeva, Raina Haque & Nick Desetto
Session 6.B – IP AND TRADE Room 309, 8th Building Chair: Phin Sovath Presenters: Abdumumin Yuldashov, Yung-Chieh Tsai, Qinqing Xu, Chih-Chieh Yang, Taorui Guan
Session 6.C – GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION Room 310, 8th Building Chair: Laina Rafianti Presenters: Noor Asfia Awan, Sayantani Datta, Lihini De Silva, Ho Bich Hang Nguyen, Richa Yadav & Shweta Amrawanshi
Session 6.D – IP AND DISPUTES’ POTPOURRI Room 311, 8th Building Chair: Dai Yokomizo Presenters: Lixian Cong, Haotian Geng, Afzal Wani, Cheryl Xiaoning Long & Jitai Chen, Dongyan Yu
Session 6.E – GREEN, SUSTAINABILITY, AND IP EXHAUSTION Room 312, 8th Building Chair: Le Thi Thu Ha Presenters: Jesebel D. Aguilar et al., Hao-Yun Chen, Somalatha Moly TS, Taslima Jahan
Session 6.F – AI AND COPYRIGHT: CERTAINLY NOT THE LAST DANCE Room 313, 8th Building Chair: Subhash Chandra Roy Presenters: Brian Amy Prastyo & Agus Sardjono, Tayyab Mujahid, Ziyan Qiu, Rostam Neuwirth, Mauricio Figueroa
Session 6.G – DATA PROTECTION BETWEEN IP AND COMPETITION Room 408, 8th Building Chair: Masabumi Suzuki Presenters: Julia Szczesniak, Wayne Wei Wang, Jingwen Liu, Nari Lee, Xianwei Zhang & Doug Wang
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch Break Okuma Garden House
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Closing Remarks Room 106, 8th Building
Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
Irene Calboli, IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Group Photo Session Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
