{"id":5261,"date":"2026-09-30T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:17:33","slug":"east-ip-partners-share-expertise-at-the-ipo-annual-meeting-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/news\/east-ip-partners-share-expertise-at-the-ipo-annual-meeting-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"East IP Partners Share Expertise at the IPO Annual Meeting in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the 2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ipo.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ipo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intellectual Property Owner Association<\/a> (IPO)\u00a0Annual Meeting in Toronto draws to a close,\u00a0East IP\u00a0is grateful to have been invited to contribute, with our Head of Trademarks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/professionals\/jimmy-huang\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1278\">\u9ec4\u9759\u6587<\/a>\u00a0and Partner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/professionals\/james-lau\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4581\">\u5218\u70af\u5b87<\/a>\u00a0speaking on two panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Global Strategy for Effective Online Brand Protection in the AI Era<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel explored evolving challenges in online brand protection, including sophisticated counterfeit strategies, enforcement trends, recent case law and AI detection tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Moderator<\/strong>:\u00a0Kirk Sigmon (KellDann Law)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Speakers<\/strong>:\u00a0Christine Casaceli (Temu), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/professionals\/jimmy-huang\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1278\">\u9ec4\u9759\u6587<\/a> (East IP), Michael Sweeney (Corsearch), Kenya Williams (Thermo Fisher Scientific)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Global Update on Colour Marks in Trademark Law<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This discussion focused on recent developments in colour mark protection, including registration standards, enforcement and strategic considerations across key markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Moderator<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Victoria Longshaw (Houlihan Intellectual Property)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Speakers<\/strong>:\u00a0Laurie Bray (Withers &amp; Rogers), Makiko Coffland (Christenson O&#8217;Conner), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/professionals\/james-lau\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4581\">\u5218\u70af\u5b87<\/a> (East IP), Rob Milligan (Bird &amp; Bird)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to IPO for organizing&nbsp;and our fellow speakers for two engaging discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2026\u00a0Intellectual Property Owner Association (IPO)\u00a0Annual Meeting in Toronto draws to a close,\u00a0East IP\u00a0is grateful to have been invited to contribute, with our Head of Trademarks\u00a0Jimmy Huang\u00a0and Partner\u00a0James Lau\u00a0speaking on two panels.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.east-ip.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}