On 13 - 16 September 2025, the 2025 AIPPI World Congress is convened in Yokohama, Japan. The Congress, which features the famous AIPPI Study Questions, thought-provoking plenary sessions, intriguing panel sessions, AIPPI Café (roundtables on a variety of hot topics), unique events like Women in AIPPI and the Young AIPPI Forum, attracts around 3,000 delegates around the globe.

The Congress has four dedicated pharma sessions where panelists focus their discussion on matters like “Artificial Creativity or Intellectual Reality. Use of Generative AI in Pharma and Biotech and its Impact on the Patenting Process”, “Litigating Biosimilars”, “Walking on the Fence - Navigating Collaborations in Biopharma” and “House of Health Designers - Personalised Medicine and Genetics”. Its panel sessions cover an array of hot-button issues including inter alia, “Generative Chaos in Copyright – Not Only Judges Get Confused!”, “Dancing with FRAND!”, “Mediation – Meditate Before Litigation!”, “Pssst! Recent Trends and New Concepts in Trade Secret Protection and Enforcement”, “On the Catwalk! Non Traditional Trade Marks in Fashion Industry”, “Divisional Dilemma – Divide and Rule! Divisional Applications and Double Patenting”, among others.

Wanhuida Intellectual Property sends a seven-person delegation to the congress. The delegation consists of Partners Daniel Jiang, Liu Feng, He Shanmei and Xie Minnan, Senior Associates Sun Weifeng & Yang Xiaoyang, as well as Patent Attorney Xia Yunjie.

In the evening of September 15, Wanhuida holds a reception at Hilton Yokohama. The event offers fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues and friends from around the world to explore emerging challenges and opportunities in intellectual property.