The Intellectual Property Rights Working Group is glad to invite you to the next Working Group meeting and elections, that will take place on Thursday, 8th Mar 2018, 16:00-18:00 at the European Chamber Beijing, Shanghai and South China Office via videoconference/dial-in.
At the next Working Group meeting, we will have a discussion on the 2018 Working Group plan, as well as the IPR Position Paper (PP) 2018/2019. We encourage our members to send us any comment about the current paper (see attachment), their correspondent concerns and potential new content. Any inputs, please send to Ms. Sio-Mei Ng at smng@europeanchamber.com.cn. Additionally, the 2018 - 2019 Chair elections will be held during this meeting.
Chair Elections
The Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson play a crucial role in driving the Working Group, which includes a leadership role in the drafting of the Position Paper, communicating key messages to Chinese and European government authorities and steering Working Group meetings. The desired characteristics of a Chair and Vice Chairs are a senior industry representative with relevant industry expertise and government contacts who has the time and willingness to support the Working Group. You may find more detailed description about the roles and responsibilities in the Starter Kit for Chairs attached.
The IPR Working Group can have, at most, one National Chair and five National Vice-Chairs.
• One National Working Group Chair will be elected (based in either Shanghai or Beijing)
• One Vice-Chair position will be available for the Chapter where the National Chair will be based
• Two Vice-Chair positions will be available for the other two Chapters
In accordance with European Chamber internal guidelines, voting for the election must be conducted in person at the Group meeting (one vote per company) after each candidate has been given an opportunity to give a short speech on why they would like to run for election. All elected Chairpersons must sign the attached Code of Conduct following election. Another email to the Working Group with bios and motivation letters of all candidates will be sent prior to the election.
Tentative agenda
16:00 – 16:20 Review of IPR WG in 2017
16:20 – 16:40 Chair and Vice-Chair Elections
16:40 – 17:40 Discussion on PCR Position Paper 2017/2018 (appointment of the lead pens and drafting of the KRs)
17:40 – 18:00 AOB
As usual, we welcome your suggestions for possible agenda topics and speakers for this and future meetings.
We encourage as many of our members as possible to attend to have their say in the leadership and representation of the Working Group in the year ahead.
Registration
If you would like to attend this meeting, please register here or contact Ms. Sio-Mei Ng at smng@europeanchamber.com.cn indicating which office you would like to attend.
Downloads
Some documents are only available to download by members of the following Working Groups / Fora in Beijing.
- Intellectual Property Rights
If you are a member please login to our website first to download the documents.
Starter Kit for Chairs
Group / Forum Members only
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