The 2024 New Materials IP Forum took place on 28 December 2024 in Shanghai. It was hosted by the Shanghai New Materials Association and Zhichan Huicui, with guidance and support from the Xinjiang Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and the Xinjiang New Materials Society.
Under the theme "Innovation leads, IP safeguards", the forum focused on advanced metals, polymers, frontier materials, electronic information materials, new-energy materials, biomedical materials, advanced composites and chemical new materials, bringing together corporate IPR, legal and R&D teams with practitioners from the legal and judicial communities.
The programme ran across morning and afternoon sessions plus two roundtables, covering equivalents in patent infringement, enforcement strategy for new-materials patents, AI-driven patent systems, trade secret enforcement, patent filing practice and IP due diligence for outbound investment, with a networking dinner and exhibition booths.