On October 24, 2025, the 16th Tongji-Bayer Intellectual Property Forum themed "Advancing High-Level Opening-Up and Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection"was successfully held in Changzhou.
Xu Xuejun, Vice President of Tongji University; Johannes Dabrock, Executive Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Bayer Group; Shi Mingde, President of the Chinese-German Friendship Association; Du Weike, Vice President of the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court;Ding Lan, Deputy Director-General of Jiangsu Intellectual Property Office; Pan Dongling,Vice Mayor of Changzhou attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
Xu Xuejun,Vice President,Tongji University
Johannes Dabrock,Executive Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer,Bayer Group
Shi Mingde,President,Chinese-German Friendship Association
Du Weike,Vice President,Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court
Vice Mayor Pan Dongling, Changzhou
Distinguished Chinese and foreign guests including Professor Francis Gurry,former Director General of WIPO and Honorary Dean of Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property, Tongji University; Professor Ma Yide,Deputy to the National People's Congress and Dean of the School of Intellectual Property, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor Dr. Klaus Bacher, Presiding Judge of the 10th Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany and Adjunct Professor of Tongji University; Dr. Li Yantao, Chief Examiner and First-Class Patent Examiner of the Patent Examination Cooperation (Jiangsu) Center of the China National Intellectual Property Administration; Professor Christoph Ann from Technical University of Munich carried out in-depth exchanges and discussions on hot topics including progress in China-EU intellectual property protection, artificial intelligence and intellectual property, and regulatory data protection, contributing wisdom and strength to promoting international intellectual property cooperation and high-level opening-up.
Keynote Speech by Professor Francis Gurry
Keynote Speech by Professor Ma Yide
Presentation by Professor Dr. Klaus Bacher
Presentation by Edgar Brinkmann
The Tongji-Bayer Intellectual Property Forum is a landmark platform for international intellectual property cooperation,co-founded by Tongji University and Bayer AG of Germany.Since 2006, it has been held for 15 consecutive sessions in Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Fuzhou and other cities, becoming an important bridge for dialogue, exchange and experience sharing among intellectual property experts from China and abroad.
This forum was co-organized by the People's Government of Wujin District, Changzhou, Foreign Affairs Office of Changzhou Municipal People's Government, and Changzhou Administration for Market Regulation (Intellectual Property Office).
On October 23,Wang Jianfeng, Secretary of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee, met with distinguished guests attending the 16th Tongji-Bayer Intellectual Property Forum,including Xu Xuejun; Vice President of Tongji University, and Johannes Dabrock, Executive Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Bayer Group. They had in-depth exchanges on further deepening cooperation and advancing high-level opening-up. Du Weike,Vice President of the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court, Ding Lan, Deputy Director-General of Jiangsu Intellectual Property Office, and Pan Dongling, Vice Mayor of Changzhou attended the meeting.(Source: Changzhou Release)
