The Center for Intellectual Property of Fudan University was formally established on December 15, 1995 as the first university IP center in area of Shanghai and one of the earliest IP centers of Chinese universities. It is an inter-discipline and inter-department research center. The founding director is Professor ZHANG Naigen (Law School); deputy director is Professor LU Fei (Office of Science and Technology), Professor WANG Fuxin (Business School) and Professor CHEN Naiwei (Law School).
The Center is organized as an across campus research institution with six guest advisers and more than forty part-time researchers including the General Director of Shanghai Bureau of Intellectual Property (predecessor is Shanghai Patent Office),the Director of Shanghai Patent and Trademark Law Firm and Chief Judge of the Third Tribunal of Shanghai Higher People’s Court (predecessor is the Intellectual Property Tribunal). The Center has very good relationships with Shanghai Municipal Government, courts and companies to conduct many research projects, in particular, with Philips Intellectual Property & Standard (China) to establish the IP Academy since 2005. More information is available at Philips-Fudan IP Academy.
The Center organizes several academic conferences and workshops every year. Many experts and scholars from Beijing and Shanghai attend these meetings. The Center edited several volumes of academic papers and published Chinese Intellectual Property Laws, the Knowledge-based Economy and Intellectual Property Laws and series books on Technology Transfer.
Since its establishment, the Center has developed many international exchange programs including the long distant course of intellectual property with WIPO Academy, the project with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden) to study intellectual property and human rights, the three-year project with Comparative Law Institute of Paris 1st University on biotechnology and intellectual property (France), and cooperation with UFJ to conduct a research on Chinese and Japanese companies’ protection for their intellectual properties (Japan). During the period of June of 2002 and January of 2003, the Center cooperated with UFJ, a well-known research institution in Japan, to conduct a successful project as one of the activities to celebrate the normalization of relationship between China and Japan for thirty years, which was focused on protection for Chinese and Japanese enterprises in China regarding their intellectual properties after China’s accession into the World Trade Organization
Director ZHANG Naigen has been invited as guest speaker to attend the many intellectual property meetings including New York, Seattle (USA) and Zurich (Switzerland).
