Last night was the second in a two-part tele-seminar on IP rights in China. Again I was the last speaker. This one was on IP enforcement. I called in at 1:45am, and the seminar was finished at slightly before 4:00am. Great speakers, good topics, reasonably pleasant experience – except for the timing of course.

As a result, I've been kind of fuzzy all day. Good mindset for blogging, I think.

I learned two things from the seminar. First, it is actually easier than I thought to find a cab at the Kerry Centre in Beijing – provided, of course, that it is 4:00am. Second, 90% of the stuff I was talking about was valid ten years ago. The law has changed and IP enforcement is certainly better than it used to be. However, the fundamental lessons, the ones that will mean success or failure, have not changed all that much, and a lot of my job continues to be introducing these ideas to new groups of people.

I think this is the last late-night speech I give for a while. Messes with your brain.