Shanghai would boast of 300,000 live registered trademarks, 1,500 famous trademarks and 150 well-known trademarks by 2015, a conference on trademark development and protection said recently.
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.