RCLIP was honored to welcome more than 250 speakers and guests for the 7th IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference on 4-6 April, 2025. Please see the conference program and many impressions below:

DAY 1
APRIL 4 DAY 2
APRIL 5 DAY 3
APRIL 6

Friday, 4 April 2025

• 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  REGISTRATION
  Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
• 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
  Room 106, 8th Building
  
  WELCOME REMARKS
  Masahiko Gemma, Vice President, Waseda University
  Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
  Irene Calboli, IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
  
  OPENING KEYNOTES
  Hasan Kleib, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
  Johanna Hill, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
  Takuya Yasui, Director, Multilateral Policy Office, Japan Patent Office
  Takeshi Iizuka, Executive Director, Japan Patent Attorneys Association
• GROUP PHOTO SESSION
  Room 106, 8th Building
• 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (1)
• Session 1.A – TRADEMARKS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Nari Lee
  Presenters: Ni Ketut Supasti Dharmawan, Amit Jamsandekar, Putu Aras Samsithawrati, Shahrina Anis Samsudin, Bram Van Wiele
• Session 1.B – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COPYRIGHT: ONGOING CONVERSATIONS
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chair: Tatsuhiro Ueno
  Presenters: Yangzi Li, Manjula Mallepalli, Tao Qian, Li Yang, Yiyan Zhang
• Session 1.C – TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS: QUO VADIS?
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Miranda Ayu Palar
  Presenters: Priyanka Sonowal & S. Chakravarthy Naik, Veena, Anil Vishwakarma, Naigen Zhang, Yunita Putri & Rohaini
• Session 1.D – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND (PUBLIC) HEALTH
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Timo Minssen
  Presenters: Nidhi Mehrotra & M. Padmavati, Subhash Chandra Roy, Tanwi Shams & Bhargav Das, Peter Immanuel D. Tenido, Chun-Chieh Wang & Dar-Zen Chen
• Session 1.E – HOW DOES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY APPLY TO DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES?
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Arzu Oguz
  Presenters: Lee Ting Cho, Shimei Huang, Tae Man Kim, Daria Kim, Jaeok Min
• Session 1.F – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND GENDER
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Leanne Wiseman
  Presenters: Noura Almutairi & Karnika Barnal, Seonghee Bae & Taehoon Kim, Ajoy Jose, Sato Naito, Salman Shahzad
• Session 1.G – PERSPECTIVES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMMERCIALIZATION
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Yoshiyuki Tamura
  Presenters: Parulian Paidi Aritonang & Henny Marlyna, A.K. Balaji, Valerii Lisitsa, Ngoc Phuong Hong Nguyen, Ria Putri & Tristiyanto Kom
• 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
  OPENING RECEPTION
  Room 303, 8th Building

Saturday, 5 April 2025

• 8:15 am – 8:45 am
  REGISTRATION
  Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
• 8:45 am – 10:30 am
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (2)
• Session 2.A – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Le Ma
  Presenters: Jingjing Hu, Cheryl Long, Debmita Mondal, Yang Chen
• Session 2.B – TRADEMARKS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chair: Henny Marlyna
  Presenters: Nur Syakirah Maimun Aqsha & Dennis Khong, Julien Cabay & Thomas Vandamme, Hina Kausar, Nicola Lucchi & Enrico Bonadio
• Session 2.C – THE IMPACT OF IP ON INNOVATION
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Ben Hopper
  Presenters: Peter Lee, Huei-Ru Dong & Szu-chia Lo, Althaf Marsoof, Yan Wang
• Session 2.D – DEVELOPMENTS IN IP ENFORCEMENT
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Van Anh Le
  Presenters: Jacob George Panickasseril, Rina Arum Prastyanti, Fen Tian, Saliltorn Thongmeensuk
• Session 2.E – FROM CINDERELLA TO THE MAIN STAGE: DESIGN
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Jyh-An Lee
  Presenters: Sergül Balsever, Lung-Sheng Chen, Jianwei Dang, Yuewen Wang & Lexi Liu, Zehra Özkan Üner, Keita Sato
• Session 2.F – REINVENTING COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL WORLD?
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Xiuqin Lin
  Presenters: Chengzhe Ning, Anna Pokrovskaya & Lianqi Cui, T.H. Rathnayake & Rashmi Gunawardana, Khujayev Shokhjakhon
• Session 2.G – GREEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Takeshi Maeda
  Presenters: Barasha Borthakur, Samuel Andrews & Samia Hassan, Lakmali Fonseka & Rashmi Gunawardana, Zinatul Ashiqin Zainol
• 10:30 am – 11:00 am
  Coffee Break
  Room 303, 8th Building
• 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (3)
• Session 3.A – RESOLVING IP DISPUTES
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Valerii Lisitsa
  Presenters: Xiuqin Lin, Saad Nusrullah, Emeric Prevost, Ahmed Essa M H Al-Sulaiti, Amal Srivastava & Rajat Agrawal
• Session 3.B – COPYRIGHT, ARTS, AND SPORT EVENTS
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chairs: Nicola Lucchi & Enrico Bonadio
  Presenters: Simiao Feng, Lucky George, Yutong Li, Huaquan Yang
• Session 3.C – DEVELOPMENTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Gargi Chakrabarti
  Presenters: Nidhi Buch, Justin Hughes, Khushi Kesari & Shivani Singh, I Gede Agus Kurniawan, Sonali Agnihotri & Abhijeet Mishra
• Session 3.D – AI AND COPYRIGHT: THE ONGOING DANCE
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Peter Lee
  Presenters: Tianxiang He, Jyh-An Lee, Keita Takano, Leslie Wellington Sirora, Jiyu Zhang
• Session 3.E – PATENTS AND AI
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Christoph Rademacher & Roberto Carapeto
  Presenters: Lital Helman & Gideon Parchomovsky, Mohd Imran, Zarina Iqbal, Arzu Oguz, Abhijeet Kumar
• Session 3.F – IP AND DATA
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Jeremy de Beer
  Presenters: Kui Cai, Tong Liu, Alexander Lou, Yuyang Tian, Nuobeier Chen
• Session 3.G – ONLINE IP ENFORCEMENT
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Althaf Marsoof
  Presenters: Saeedeh Mazinanian, Van Anh Le & Vinh Ha Hoang, Sanqiang Qu, Mingzhu Zhang
• 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
  Lunch Break
  Okuma Garden House
• 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm
  GROUP PHOTO SESSION
  In front of Okuma Auditorium
• 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (4)
• Session 4.A – COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Tianxiang He
  Presenters: Yoojin Lee, Cristiana Sappa, Maria Angerhofer, Qianyun Bi, Eun Chang Choi
• Session 4.B – PATENTS, MEDICINES, AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chair: Naigen Zhang
  Presenters: Xiaoyu Fan, M Hawin, Rujitha Shenoy, Chao-Chih Hsueh & Mu-Hsuan Huang, Habiba Sheikh & Niharika Bhattacharya
• Session 4.C – MORE ABOUT TRADEMARKS …
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Julien Cabay
  Presenters: Guimin Fang, Bon Gyoung Goo, Henny Marlyna, Monika Yadav, Ryan Whalen
• Session 4.D – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEORY AND INNOVATION
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Justin Hughes
  Presenters: Ben Hopper, Dennis Khong, Biyu Ma & Yue Qing, Marc Mimler, Nur Arfah Mustapha & Evan Hanif Dwi Novianto, Aneel Sagar et al.
• Session 4.E – MORE ON THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COPYRIGHT DEBATE
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Abdumumin Yuldashov
  Presenters: Wangjie Chen, Stefan Papastefanou, Laina Rafianti, Ho Minh Thanh & Doan Duc Luong, Linfan Li
• Session 4.F – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Qi Jun Kwong
  Presenters: Hsaio-Fen Hsu, Parul Sinha, Leanne Wiseman, Sunanda Bharti, Shambhavi Tripathi
• Session 4.G – THE (COMPLEX) DISCUSSION ON DATA, TECHNOLOGY, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Gideon Parchomovsky
  Presenters: Li-Ru Chen, Lingjun Gao, Le Ma, Priyanka Dhar, Saifei Wang
• 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
  Coffee Break
  Room 303, 8th Building
• 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
  PLENARY ROUNDTABLE – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A TURBULENT WORLD: WHAT ROLE FOR ACADEMICS AND INSTITUTIONS?
  Room 106, 8th Building
  Chair: Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
  Presenters:
  - Roshan Khan, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, World Trade Organization
  - Bernard Ong, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
  - Irene Calboli, IP and Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
  - Justin Hughes, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
  - Nari Lee, Hanken School of Economics
  - Xiuqin Lin, School of Law, Xiamen University
• 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  Conference Dinner
  RIHGA Royal Hotel

Sunday, 6 April 2025

• 8:15 am – 8:45 am
  REGISTRATION
  Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building
• 8:45 am – 10:45 am
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (5)
• Session 5.A – TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, GENETIC RESOURCES, AND BENEFIT SHARING
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Lihini De Silva
  Presenters: Shubham Anand et al., Miranda Ayu Palar & Laina Rafianti, Gyandeep Chaudhary & Laxmi Kumari, Elnur Karimov, Paramita DasGupta
• Session 5.B – THE ROLE OF TRADE SECRETS FOR INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chair: Jeremy de Beer
  Presenters: Xueni Chen & Chunming Xu, Deli Cheng & Xiaoguang Shan, Lingzi Liu, Dai Yokomizo
• Session 5.C – FROM IDEAS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Dennis Khong
  Presenters: Nobuya Fukugawa, Xing Le Kong, Fennieka Kristianto, Bui Thi Xuan & Le Thi Thu Ha, Hong-Wen Tsai
• Session 5.D – AI AND COPYRIGHT: THE DANCE CONTINUES
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Cristiana Sappa
  Presenters: Xinmeng Li, Mani Pratap et al., Viktoriia Savina, Szu-Yuan Wang, Ludi Jiang
• Session 5.E – MEDICINES, DIAGNOSTICS, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Ichiro Nakayama
  Presenters: Kiyoshi Adachi, Gargi Chakrabarti & Lopamudra Dutta, Zidi Wu, Paulo Lozano, Huaiyin Zhang
• Session 5.F – IP ENFORCEMENT: COMPARING AND LEARNING
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Hao-Yun Chen & Rostam Neuwirth
  Presenters: Ajay Kumar Sharma, Yii-Der Su, Jingying Jiang, Paul Gugliuzza
• Session 5.G – COPYRIGHT, SOCIAL NETWORK, AND MUCH MORE …
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Tao Qian
  Presenters: Angga Priancha, Kirtika Sahu & Avnish Mishra, Hongqian Zhou, Zijun Yang
• 10:45 am – 11:00 am
  Coffee Break
  Room 303, 8th Building
• 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
  PARALLEL SESSIONS (6)
• Session 6.A – AI AND IP: THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERFACE
  Room 308, 8th Building
  Chair: Paul Gugliuzza
  Presenters: Qi Jun Kwong, Kateryna Militsyna, Edy Santoso, Anna Ubaydullaeva, Raina Haque & Nick Desetto
• Session 6.B – IP AND TRADE
  Room 309, 8th Building
  Chair: Phin Sovath
  Presenters: Abdumumin Yuldashov, Yung-Chieh Tsai, Qinqing Xu, Chih-Chieh Yang, Taorui Guan
• Session 6.C – GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION
  Room 310, 8th Building
  Chair: Laina Rafianti
  Presenters: Noor Asfia Awan, Sayantani Datta, Lihini De Silva, Ho Bich Hang Nguyen, Richa Yadav & Shweta Amrawanshi
• Session 6.D – IP AND DISPUTES’ POTPOURRI
  Room 311, 8th Building
  Chair: Dai Yokomizo
  Presenters: Lixian Cong, Haotian Geng, Afzal Wani, Cheryl Xiaoning Long & Jitai Chen, Dongyan Yu
• Session 6.E – GREEN, SUSTAINABILITY, AND IP EXHAUSTION
  Room 312, 8th Building
  Chair: Le Thi Thu Ha
  Presenters: Jesebel D. Aguilar et al., Hao-Yun Chen, Somalatha Moly TS, Taslima Jahan
• Session 6.F – AI AND COPYRIGHT: CERTAINLY NOT THE LAST DANCE
  Room 313, 8th Building
  Chair: Subhash Chandra Roy
  Presenters: Brian Amy Prastyo & Agus Sardjono, Tayyab Mujahid, Ziyan Qiu, Rostam Neuwirth, Mauricio Figueroa
• Session 6.G – DATA PROTECTION BETWEEN IP AND COMPETITION
  Room 408, 8th Building
  Chair: Masabumi Suzuki
  Presenters: Julia Szczesniak, Wayne Wei Wang, Jingwen Liu, Nari Lee, Xianwei Zhang & Doug Wang
• 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
  Lunch Break
  Okuma Garden House
• 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm
  Closing Remarks
  Room 106, 8th Building
  Masabumi Suzuki, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
  Irene Calboli, IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network; Texas A&M University School of Law
  
  
• 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
  Group Photo Session
  Foyer outside Room 106, 8th Building