Partly because of pressure from government on IP protections, the ICANN Board did not as originally expected give final approval to the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme but any joy for brand oweners might be short lived.
It is lucky for Chen Jun to began his career in the IP industry 14 years ago when the first group of IP managers for businesses appeared on the stage in China and he has been in the industry.
It was this “Whampoa Military Academy” for IP that educated China’s first batch of corporate IP management personnel. Many of these engineers left Foxconn in the years since.