Mr. Toshinori Tanno completed Master's course and started his career in pharmaceutical manufacturer. In companies, he is responsible for product development regarding medicines, cosmetics, and medical apparatus and instruments. Later, he successively joined a patent attorney office and patent department of a commodity company. Currently, Mr. Toshinori Tanno holds a position in UNIUS Patent Attorneys Office and focuses on comprehensive IP support services for large-sized or small and medium-sized enterprises. He provides customers professional suggestion on patent application procedure, technical contract signing, IP value evaluation and etc. Besides, he became a member of Group 3, Intellectual Property Valuation Promotion Center, Japan Patent Attorneys Association since 2009 and in charge of the research on IP value evaluation.

Mrs. Nakamura Sakae joined in Asahi Kasei Corporation in 1985. In 1989, she was transferred to intellectual property department and responsible for patent application, acquisition and licensing businesses concerning health care and fiber. Later, Mrs. Nakamura Sakae held a post in technical information search division under intellectual property department of Asahi Kasei Group established in 1998, and was promoted to director for the division in 2006. In this role, she was in charge of providing training on information search and utilization for researchers in addition to specific searching. She also headed a division supplying consulting services on information search in diverse industries. From 2006 to 2008, Mrs. Nakamura Sakae was a lecturer at Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and Graduate School of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In the last three years, Mrs. Nakamura Sakae was a visiting lecturer at Yokohama City University. She is also a frequent speaker at other universities.

Yang Xuri is a graduate student of Beijing University and now acts as chief inspector of IP and intangible assets of Founder Group, supervising chairman of Beijing IP protection association, chief chairman of Beijing IP Development Salon, deputy secretary general of DIAA, member of Copyright Protection Union, and member of China Trademark Association. He is responsible for facilitating Founder Group's work in IP, standard and intangible assets to make Founder Group the model company in IP in China. He participated in planning and demonstrating domestic pioneering lawsuits such as the lawsuit against HiTech and the lawsuit against Blizzard.

1987 Completed his postgraduate degree from the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences at Kyushu University, then joined the research center of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. where he was engaged in the R & D work for ceramic gas turbine;

1997 Transferred to the Department of Intellectual Property in Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., where he worked on patent application, patent management and patent search;

By Sept. 2005 Director of the Department of Intellectual Property at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Oct. 2006-present Transferred to the Department of Intellectual Property Businesses (specialized patent search department) at Nissan Technology Corporation (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nissan Motor)

2005-2008  Consultant for Juridical Association and Society for Patent Information Analysis

Education Background:

Master Degree in Engineering--Department of Vehicle Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology

Occupational History:

2010-NOW: Director of Intellectual Property Management Division of Geely Automobile Research Institute

2007-2009: Patent Attorney of Hangzhou Hangcheng Patent Attorneys Office Co., Ltd.

1998 Graduated from Hebei University of Scienceand Technology Bachelor of Engineering

2000 Graduated from China University of Political Science and Law Bachelor of Laws

2007 Enrolled in John Marshall Law School, Chicago, US LLM Degree

2000-Present Division 1, Legal Affairs Department, SIPO

Yanghong Lü is a senior engineer and domestic leading talent in the field of patent information. Mr. Lü has a long-term track record of intellectual property information research, patent information dissemination and utilization, standard research on enterprise intellectual property management and performance evaluation, etc. He organizes and accomplishes IP examination and accreditation work which is a provincial major economic and technological activity. Additionally, he is responsible for completing multiple tasks concerning development on patent information research and intellectual property strategy at national, provincial, and enterprise levels for eight consecutive years.

John Ma is Senior Director of Landon IP China. Landon IP is the leading patent research company in the industry and the parent company of the Patent Resources Group (PRG). Landon IP is also the only firm doing preliminary examination and PCT searching for the USPTO since inception, over 6 years ago. Mr. Ma graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai with a bachelor of Biology. He worked for King and Wood, Mallesons (then King and Wood, PRC Lawyers) Shanghai office as patent engineer before going to the US. He got his master University of Maryland, College Park and started working for Landon IP in Alexandria VA since graduation.