Vice Premier Wu Yi is has been named one of the 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world by Managing Intellectual Property magazine.
The second edition of the MIP 50, which names leading IP figures from business, government and the law, appears in the July/August issue.
In addition to Wu, China has three other representatives on the list: Judge Jiang Zhipei, academic Zheng Chengsi and State Intellectual Property Office head Wang Jingchuan.
Americans dominate the MIP 50, accounting for nearly half of the total. These include US Patent and Trademark Office director Jon Dudas, Judge Pauline Newman and International Trademark Association President Jacqueline Leimer.
Other prominent individuals from the Asia-Pacific region on the list include Indian intellectual property activist Vandana Shiva, Philip Yeo of the Singapore Economic Development Board, R.C. Lahoti, Chief Justice of India, Hitachi IP counsel Yasuo Sakuta and Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura.
Managing Intellectual Property journalists and researchers in London, New York and Hong Kong compiled the list based on research among IP practitioners worldwide. Managing Intellectual Property is published monthly by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and was founded 14 years ago.
The MIP 50 (in alphabetical order)
Bob Armitage, Eli Lilly
Wubbo de Boer, OHIM
Mitch Bainwol, RIAA
Frits Bolkestein, European Commission
Todd Dickinson, GE
Jon Dudas, USPTO
Jannelly Fourtou, European Parliament
Tove Graulund, Arla Foods
Robin Gross, IP Justice
Mandy Haberman, inventor
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer
Francis Gurry, WIPO
Ian Harvey, BTG
Orrin Hatch, US Senate
Kamil Idris, WIPO
Jiang Zhipei, Supreme People's Court
Mike Kirk, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Ilias Konteas, UNICE
RC Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
Michael Leathes, BAT
Mr. Justice Hugh Laddie, Royal Courts of Justice
Jacqueline Leimer, Kraft Foods
Judge Fidelma Macken, European Court of Justice
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada
Stephen Merrill, National Academies
Alexander von Mühlendahl, OHIM
The Honorable Justice Pauline Newman, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Lucy Nichols, Nokia
David Nimmer, academic
Erik Nooteboom, European Commission
Shuji Nakamura, inventor
Marshall Phelps, Microsoft
Alain Pompidou, European Patent Office
Michael Robertson, CEO Lindows/Linspire
Ernesto Rubio, WIPO
Yasuo Sakuta, Hitachi
James Sensenbrenner, US House of Representatives
Vandana Shiva, Research Institute for Science, Technology and Ecology
Lamar Smith, US House of Representatives
Joseph Stiglitz, economist
Joseph Strauss, Max Planck Institute
Paul Twomey, ICANN
Jack Valenti, MPAA
Herb Wamsley, Intellectual Property Owners' Association
Wang Jingchuan, State Intellectual Property Office
John Ward, US district court judge
Wu Yi, Chinese vice premier
Philip Yeo, Singapore's Economic Development Board
Zheng Chengsi, academic
Robert Zoellick, US Trade Representative
(China Daily July 23, 2004)
