Vice-Premier Wu Yi speaks at a meeting in this April 19, 2004 file photo. [newsphoto]

BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese vice-premier Wu Yi is among the top 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world, the Managing Intellectual Property magazine reports in its July/August issue.     

    Hitachi IP counsel Yasuo Sakuta and Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura are also featured in a new list. They are among 50 figures from business, government and the law in the second edition of the MIP 50.     

    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.     

    China has four representatives on the list: Vice-premier Wu Yi, Judge Jiang Zhipei, academic Zheng Chengsi and State Intellectual Property Office head Wang Jingchuan. From Japan Shuji Nakamura and Yasuo Sakuta are included.     

    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 and R C Lahoti, Chief Justice of India.     

    The list was compiled by Managing Intellectual Property's journalists and researchers in London, New York and Hong Kong, 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 M¨¹hlendahl, 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)