Robert Kapp PhD
Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc.

Robert A. Kapp is president of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc., Port Townsend, Washington (www.rakapp.com).  The firm provides consulting services to companies pursuing business development with, and in, the People’s Republic of China.
From April 1994 to November 2004, Dr. Kapp served as president of The US-China Business Council.

Founded in 1973, the Council is the principal organization of American companies and industries engaged in trade and investment with China, and is supported by several hundred leading U.S. corporations and firms.  In addition to guiding the business services, publications, and program activities of the US-China Business Council through its Washington, DC headquarters and its Beijing and Shanghai representative offices,

Dr. Kapp contributed regularly to informed U.S. dialogue on China, through Congressional testimony, published articles, frequent media appearances, and presentations to educational and community organizations nationwide.  He has been widely recognized in the United States and China as a leader in the effort to sustain strong, mutually respectful relations between the two nations.

From 1979 to 1987 he was the founding executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council, and from 1987 to 1994 he served as president of the Washington Council on International Trade, a trade information and education association primarily concerned with trade policy issues.

Focus of this Third Clinic

The methodologies employed by many foreign companies to ensure the integrity of their intellectual property rights (IPRs) are seriously flawed. IP damage is often self-inflicted by the failure of foreign companies to take adequate measures to protect their IPRs so they remain unnecessarily susceptible to IP theft and the ensuing prospects of legal process.  We will introduce the BARD framework for IPR protection. 

BARD is based on in depth research, conducted in China, over the last two years with IP owners, IP lawyers, IP consulting firms, Advertising agencies, branding consultants and those that track down IP infringers.