Dr. Lulin Gao will attend the Board of Advisors meeting of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) on April 13, 2005 in Washington D.C. and become a member of the Board of Advisors of IIPI. The members of Board of Advisors of IIPI include the following:

Hon. James E. Rogan (former commissioner of USPTO), Richard Wilder (Director of the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division of WIPO), Toyomaro YOSHIDA (Director General of AIPPI, JAPAN, former Deputy Commissioner of the JPO), Ian Harvey (Founding Chairman of United Kingdom Intellectual Property Advisory Committee), Susan Mann (Federal Government Affairs Manager at Microsoft), Jacques Michel (Former Vice President of European Patent Office), Michael P. Ryan (Senior Consultant of IIPI).