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 22, 2004)