The Lingang New Area Market Regulation Bureau and Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE) recently held a special symposium on July 23rd, focusing on the protection of data intellectual property and the legal safeguards for cross-border trade.

During the meeting, the Lingang New Area Market Regulation Bureau provided a detailed overview of the overall progress in institutional innovation and pilot initiatives within the region's intellectual property sector. It systematically outlined the phased achievements of the pilot programs, interpreting in detail the supportive IP policies for tech startups and the working mechanisms for data rights confirmation trials. SUIBE engaged in an in-depth exchange with the bureau on practical issues, including registration rules for data product IP rights and strategies for managing IP disputes in cross-border trade.

The two sides fully discussed the practical effects of specific policies, the current state of cross-departmental IP collaborative governance, and common challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises in overseas rights protection. They also conducted pragmatic discussions on the bottlenecks, difficulties, and directions for optimization in the implementation of these systems.

Following the symposium, participants visited a leading enterprise in the region. The company's leadership, drawing from their own operational experience, shared real-world challenges encountered in areas like data rights confirmation and cross-border data transfer, providing faculty and students with vivid, frontline case studies.

This event, using a model that combines symposiums with field research, effectively built a communication bridge connecting policy regulation, academic research, and industrial practice. Moving forward, the Lingang New Area Market Regulation Bureau plans to use the common pain points reported by enterprises during this research—such as the rights confirmation process and cross-border compliance—to transform the university-local collaboration into concrete policy optimization measures and precise enterprise services, thereby supporting the high-quality development of the region's sci-tech industries and digital trade.