On November 29th, Professor Luo Li, Distinguished Professor under the “Hundred Talents Program” of our institution, was invited by the Business School of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) to deliver an academic lecture entitled The Excessive Securitization of the Intellectual Property Mechanism and China’s Responses from the Perspective of the ON Semiconductor Incident. The lecture was the 71st session of the Law and Business Academic Forum hosted by the Business School of CUPL. It was presided over by Professor Liu Zhixiong, Vice Dean of the Business School of CUPL; Professor Guo Ying, another Vice Dean of the school, delivered an address; and Professor Jin Renshu and Professor Wang Ling from the same school served as panel discussants.

Professor Luo Li traced the entire development of the recent ON Semiconductor dispute and pointed out that the essence of this incident lies in the contest for technological sovereignty. Starting from the ON Semiconductor Incident, she expounded on the manifestations and means of the international trend of the excessive securitization of intellectual property in recent years, and analyzed the causes behind. She noted the historical evolution and that it is inevitable for technological nationalism, as well as the fact that the intellectual property system is subordinated to the needs of national security governance. In addition, the shift in the concept of national security—from the traditional one centered on territorial, military and political security to a modern version that extends to cover economic, financial, scientific and technological, cyber, food, ecological and resource security—also acts as a crucial cause of the excessive securitization of intellectual property. Faced with this trend, Professor Luo Li conducted an in-depth analysis from three dimensions: the enterprise level, the national level and the international cooperation level. She proposed that China should take independent innovation as the foundation, rule output as the weapon, the protection of the rule of law as the shield and open cooperation as the guiding principle, so as to respond systematically.