On August 8, 2024, the 4th Intellectual Property Frontier Medical Device Forum (IFMF 2024), co-hosted by YIP Events, Intellectual Property Frontier New Media, and Compliance Plus, successfully opened in Shanghai with the theme 'Embracing the New Pattern of Intellectual Property Rights to Safeguard Corporate Innovation'. This esteemed annual gathering is a cornerstone event for the medical device industry, focusing on IP rights. The 4th IFMF 2024 welcomed over 45 representatives from domestic and international IP offices and courts, medical device enterprises, and legal professionals. It also attracted more than 100 entities from the medical device and smart healthcare sectors, including universities and research institutions, alongside 30 top law firms and agencies, totaling over 270 participants from around the globe.
The forum's agenda was meticulously crafted to address current hot issues and practical corporate concerns. It aimed to offer a rich learning experience for IP professionals, fostering a collaborative dialogue between medical device companies, legal experts, and R&D specialists. Discussions revolved around cutting-edge trends, emerging challenges, and innovative solutions in medical device IP protection, all in the pursuit of propelling China's medical device industry forward and enhancing the efficiency of IP management within it.
Llinks partner Ms. Cherri Che was invited to attend the forum and deliver a keynote speech titled 'Parallel Import Issues and Response Strategies under Medical Device Regulatory Regulations'. Ms. Che mainly focused on the current situation of parallel imports of medical device products, the particularity of parallel imports of medical device products, administrative supervision of parallel imports of medical device products, extraterritorial experience of trademark infringement and domestic judicial practice, and response strategies of the right holders, combining rich practical cases, and conducted in-depth discussions with the participants, which aroused a warm response from the attendees.
Llinks has always been committed to providing clients with innovative, efficient, and client-centric high-quality legal services. In the field of intellectual property, Llinks has always provided in-depth, pragmatic, and diverse intellectual property legal services for domestic and foreign clients, and has been widely recognized and trusted by clients and the industry. The specific business covers patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, trade secrets, anti-unfair competition, technology import and export, and many other aspects. The industries involved include telecommunications, electronics, software, semiconductor integrated circuits, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce, the internet, and traditional media, among many emerging and traditional industrial fields. In addition to routine intellectual property business, Llinks also designs intellectual property planning and protection plans for clients, assesses intellectual property risks, assists in technology and intellectual property transactions, and helps clients protect their intellectual property rights in transaction design, contract drafting, and litigation rights protection.
Llinks is poised to support innovative entities in navigating the complex landscape of intellectual property law. The firm's forward-thinking approach to legal strategy, risk assessment, and transactional support is set to propel the industry towards a future of high-quality development and innovation.
