On August 19, 2019, Chen Yajuan, president of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, and Hu Mi, judge of the No.1 General Intellectual Property Court, were invited to attend the international seminar on judicial protection of intellectual property rights, which was sponsored by Guangdong Higher People's Court and co-organized by Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court and Shenzhen Intellectual Property Court. Tao Kaiyuan, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, Chen Liangxian, vice governor of Guangdong province, and Gong Jiali, president of the Guangdong Higher People's Court, were also present and delivered speeches. The seminar, under the theme of "Opportunities and Challenges: Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the New Era," was designed to provide a high-end professional platform for cooperation and exchanges between China and other countries, among courts across China, among judicial organs in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and between judges and scholars. President Chen Yajuan chaired the sub-seminar on "Challenges Facing and Judicial Response to Patent Protection. "