Fudan -Phillips International Property Academy：Offered courses
1. Intellectual Property Law: basic course (for JM students) offered since autumn semester of 2005
Philips experts use their designed teaching materials and provide handouts for each class.
2. Patent Law: advanced seminar (for JM students with the background of natural sciences, engineering and medical science who have taken the basic course of intellectual property law)
3. Trademark and Copyright Law: advanced seminar (for JM and LL.M students)
Seminars on Patent Law, Trademark and Copyright Law offered since the autumn semester of 2007.
The teaching materials used in these two advanced seminars are very forefront. Both seminars on Patent Law, Trademark and Copyright Law offer the latest original materials. In addition, Philips provides students with the Statutes of US Intellectual Property Law. This first-hand information makes students understand the law more accurately. Through learning many cases, everyone has a more accurate understanding on American intellectual property laws. Beside original materials, the teacher adds some cutting-edge content. The teaching way in English improves students English very well. The final examination is in unique style, for example, Patent Law seminar using the moot court as examination, which gives the students more exercises to improve their skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing with challenges.
Patent Law seminar is taught in a group of small size. For each class, students are required to finish their written assignments and to prepare the brief of cases. Almost every student has a chance to speak in class. In addition, Philips patent attorneys made a special trip from United States to give guides for moot court, which is very painstaking. As regard moot court, students can find partners as a team freely. The elected leader of team draws lots to decide the order, so as to reduce the difficulty of group work and the possibility of students to have free riding. As for the recommendations of the course, students hope to add the extra new cases and new developments, and at the same time want a little more practice content, such as check list in Philips practice which is very interesting.
Trademark and copyright law seminar is taught in class of relative large group. It requires no written homework. But, it is required that each student as the author of attached cases to present for each class. For every class, students represent the plaintiff and defendant as a team and teacher will ask questions and communicate with students. The team is also freely organized. They draw lots to decide the order.
All three courses are credited as official curriculum of Fudan University.
"Patent Law Moot Court competition" sponsored curriculum by Philips
Moot Court Competition in 2008
The court was solemn and the judges were dignified. This is not a real scene of court trial, but the Moot Court Competition as the final examination of Fudan - Philips Advanced Seminar on patent law. From 9:30 to 11:00 on the morning of December 13, 2008, four teams of red, blue, orange and green organized from the JM students who selected seminar participated the competition at the Moot Court hall of Fudan Jiangwan Campus. Professor Jack Haken and two senior attorneys, Mark Beloborodov and Todd Holmbo, served as the moot court judges. Professor Zhang Naigen, in charge of Fudan - Philips Intellectual Property Academy, and experts from Philips Investment Company (China) Intellectual Property and Standards department watched the trial.
The case brief submitted by the four teams and the oral arguments were presented in English. Team red and team blue competed first, followed by green and orange. Some detailed and critical questions from the judges were put forwarded specifically to the case. The participants presented their arguments as attorneys. They expressed their point of views clearly with calm. The atmosphere was serious and tense. In the stage of final statement, both parties reiterated their key point subtlety. The student’s performance embodied rigorous logic and outstanding ability after the training of Philips intellectual property courses. After the trial, they took photos as a memorial.
On the luncheon event, Professor Haken announced the best team in the Moot Court and presented them gifts: among them, team blue won the first competition and orange team won the second, team green was granted the best oral debate team, and orange team was the best performance team.
Through this Moot court, the JM students selecting this course not only experienced an original court trial of the Anglo-American law, broadened field of vision, but also fully demonstrated their knowledge and lay a solid foundation to engage in foreign-related intellectual property, especially patents of business lawyers in the future.
Patent Moot Court Competition in 2009
On the morning of December 12, 2009, Fudan - Philips IP Academy organized a Patent Moot Court Competition as the traditional "big show" of the advanced seminar on patent law, which was held at Moot Court hall of Law School building, Fudan Jiangwan Campus .This was the fourth moot court competition since Philips sponsored intellectual property education at Fudan since 2005.
There were two competitions in the form of arbitration participated by 16 JM students. They were teams of red, blue, green and yellow. Visiting Professor Jack C. Haken, Vice President of Philips IP & S (US) was the presiding arbitrator. Mr. Michael E. Marion, general manager of Philips IP & S (US), and Mr. Gregory Baque Philips, senior director of Philips IP & S (China) were arbitrators. They decided which team would be the winner of competition. The applicant and respondent respectively have 15 minutes for court statement in each competition. The applicant made the statement first, and then the respondent followed. During the statement, the arbitrators may interrupt it and ask some further questions which they were interested in and relative to the statement. The two competitions were based on the same case. The difference was that the applicant of second competition was the respondent of the first, and the respondent of the second competition was applicant of the first. The players of the second must not watch the prior competition.
The parties of the first competition were red team (the applicant) and blue team (respondent). Bao Liwei and other students in the red team made the statement in order and answered the arbitrator's questions, so were the blue team (Wu Jialei and other students) .Finally, in accordance with rule, red team was allowed to rebuttal the problems raised by blue team within five minutes, in order to compensate the inferior that the plaintiff had of no chance to against defendants ' defense after submit the petition.
The second competition had the same rule as the first. The parties were green and orange. Xu Feng and other students from the green team made statement first, and answered the questions raised by the arbitrator. Then the yellow team (Liu Zhilan and other students) followed. After the green team made response to the yellow team, the competition ended.
In the subsequently organized "Award Presentation Lunch", Professor Haken declared that the blue team (Hu Yue, Wu Jialei, Ma Guangxu, Vance) won the moot court championship; the red team (Zhang Xin, Bao Liwei, Wang, Zhang Lu Xi) obtained the award for best complaint. Professor Haken awarded trophies and prizes for the winning teams.
The photo made for foreign experts and students in moot court on December of 2009.
Patent Moot Court Competition in 2011
The moot court started its training program from October 19, 2011 when students got the case and teamed organized freely, and ended on December 12, 2001. The 16 players prepared it for 55 days. Firstly, the red team and the green team as the applicants wrote petition, and submitted to coach, arbitrator and opponent within the specified time .Then the blue team and the yellow team as the respondent wrote defense. The petition and the defense were finalized after the outline, the draft and the final version were finished. In order to help players to better prepare the moot court, Professor Haken invited Mr. Baque as the coach of red team and yellow team, Mr. Marion as the coach of blue team and green team. The two coaches put forward a lot of valuable comments and suggestions in each stage by email or telephone for the respective members. In the final preparation phase, the coaches and players were through face-to-face counseling to give advices and suggestions and imparted trial skills, such as how to rebuttal. Players benefited a lot from it. At this stage, Mr. Marion made a special trip from United States to Shanghai for training. Fudan University, Philips attached great importance to the moot court competition. Associated Dean of Law School, Professor Pan Weijie expressed good wishes to the competition, Professor Zhang Naigen, Director for the Center of Intellectual Property arranged every step carefully. Philips sent a number of senior experts for guidance. Philips intellectual property & Standards (USA) department general manager Mr. Marion made a special trip from United States to Shanghai for guidance and participation. His dedicated attitude, professional and rigorous style deeply moved all the students.
Through this moot court competition ,students applied the knowledge to the case and had a deep understanding about the inherent social economic value of patent law ,which inspired students’ interests and enthusiasm on patent law , and provided a valuable training opportunity for students seeking further development in the field of intellectual property .At the same time, the cooperation-oppositeness let students learned the strength of the team and the importance of teamwork .The interesting trial process exercised improvisation and spoken English .Participants enjoyed themselves during the competition.
One party of the students of the moot court on December, 2011
