From 15^th to 17^th November 2023, the “3^rd IP ForeFront Med Forum”, which is jointly organized by YIP Events, IP ForeFront and Compliance PLUS, is convened in Shenzhen.

Themed “IP risk control facilitating innovation of medical devices”, the Forum boasts a strong 40+ speakers from domestic and oversea medical device manufacturers, “Internet + Healthcare” businesses and law firms.

The Forum features a pre-forum seminar on “Trade Secret, Investment, M&A and IPO & Data Compliance”, a pre-forum training session on “IP Strategy of Medical Device Manufacturers”, and four panel discussions centering “Patent Trend Analysis, Collaboration between Medicine & Engineering, Innovation Mining”, “Observation on and Solutions to Domestic and Oversea Medical Device Patent Infringement Cases”, “Building Oversea IP Portfolios for and Risk Control of Medical Device Manufacturers”, as well as “Medical Device Patent Trend Analysis, FTO & IP Portfolios”.

Minnan (Miranda) Xie, Partner of Wanhuida Intellectual Property, speaks on “Strategy on Building a Global In Vitro Diagnosis Patent Portfolio” at the panel featuring “Collaboration between Medicine and Engineering & Patent Mining”.

Miranda speaking at the forum

Miranda also shares insights in the roundtable discussion on the application of intellectual property rights, building oversea portfolios and risk control of medical device manufacturers.

Miranda (L3) and her fellow roundtable panelists

The firm’s Senior Counsel Zhou Bin, Senior Patent Counsel Liu Yanli and Patent Counsel Xie Haorong attend the event.

The event attracts around 400 IP practitioners from medical device suppliers, smart healthcare businesses and leading law firms.