University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 31, May 15


               Chinese officials receive training at UD
     
     Ten Chinese pharmaceutical executives are receiving
training on intellectual property rights (IPR) at UD
through May 16.
     The group spent its first week in Washington, D.C.,
participating in seminars conducted by lawyers from leading
IPR firms.
     The second week included additional lectures on IPR
policies and procedures and taking field trips to leading
pharmaceutical companies, including DuPont Merck and
SmithKline Beecham. During its third week, the group will
visit pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey.
     "It's reassuring, given the amount of negative
publicity China has received lately in the IPR arena, to
see this interest regarding patents and trademarks,"
Lawrence P. Donnelley, international programs and special
sessions, said.
     "We have trained a number of other Chinese
pharmaceutical groups in the past and have more coming this
year, but this is the first group looking strictly at IPR."