The third Bayer-Tongji IPR Forum 2008 was held in Tongji University, Shanghai, focusing on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, current practices, visions and challenges.
About 180 experts, lawyers, enterprise representatives, scholars and government agencies attended the forum.
Michael Koenig, president of the Bayer Greater China Group, stressed in his speech that as a multinational corporation, Bayer takes protection of its own IPR and respect for third-party IPR as one of its global guidelines.
Professor Zhou Jialun of Tongji University said that the university has been in long and close cooperation with Bayer not only in IPR protection, but also in sustainable development and creation of energy-saving buildings.
The Bayer-Tongji IPR Forum is part of a long-term cooperation in IPR between Bayer and the Sino-German Institute of Tongji University. On April 4, 2006, Bayer set up the five-year Bayer funded Chair for IPR to facilitate IPR protection in China.
