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16 Aug2023The medical device industry in China has entered a rapid development period. From 2017 to 2022, the market scale of the medical device industry in China has been continuously increased from 440.3 mill...
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09 Aug2023The amended Provisions on Prohibiting the Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights to Exclude or Restrict Competition (hereinafter referred to as the 'Provisions') published by China's State ...
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05 Aug2023On January 13, 2023, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as the "CNIPA") issued the Bill to Revise the Trademark Law of the People's Republic...
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07 Mar2023Article 10. 1. 7 of Trademark Law stipulates that signs that are deceptive and likely to cause the public to misrecognize the quality or origin of the goods shall not be registered and used as tradema...
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Since the new Patent Law came into effect on June 1, 2021, the PTA (Patent Term Adjustment) Scheme has been officially established. Article 42, Clause 2 of the new Patent Law provides th...
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10 Feb2023The applicants may face difficulties to register three-dimensional trademarks in China. According to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)’s guide for trademark examina...
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20 Dec2022The medical device industry in China is now embracing its “golden age”. As of December 31, 2021, it has recorded 28,954 medical device manufactures nationwide, an increase of 13.8% compare...
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20 Dec2022Accelerating digital and AI transformation has become a significant direction of development. To keep up with this trend, the Chinese government has attached particular significance to medical AI deve...
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20 Dec2022On June 10 2022, the Shanghai Stock Exchange officially released and implemented the ‘Guidelines of the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the Application of the Rules for Issuance and Listing Review o...
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20 Dec2022On October 1 2021, the Administrative Measures for Registration and Record-Filing of Medical Devices came into force. The Administrative Measures for Registration of Medical Devices, effective from Oc...
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19 Dec2022Although China adopts the principle of registration in trademark protection, it offers certain protection for prior used and unregistered marks in some circumstances. The China Trademark Law has gone ...
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15 Dec2022Recently, for the sake of strengthening the governance, supervision and management of the trademark agency industry, and guiding the trademark agency to operate in accordance with the law, the State A...
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30 Sep20221. INTRODUCTION The patent invalidation procedure is an effective countermeasure against the infringement actions filed by the patentee. Concurrently with the infringement lawsuit, the accused infrin...
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30 Aug2022Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (the "Pilot Zone") was established with the approval of the State Council in 2013 and granted many preferential policie...
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29 Jul2022Recently, two typical cases[1] announced by the CNIPA (Top Ten Cases of Reexamination and Invalidation in 2021) provide the examination practice for some complicated issues in compound patents, includ...
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- Case study on the first successful invalidation case due to no foreign filing license On 9 May 2022, the CNIPA has issued an Invalidation Decision No. 55586, attracting widespread attention...
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06 May20221. The Hague System The Hague System for filing an international design application, like many other similar systems (the PCT system for patent or the Madrid system for trademark) managed by WIPO...
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In order to protect the rights and interests of applicants and avoid losing novelty due to the disclosure of patent applications under specific circumstances before the filing date, the Patent...
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26 Apr2022Different from many other countries, evidence of use is not required when trademark application is filed, and the registrant is not obliged to submit any evidence of use either after r...
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08 Apr2022In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC (“SPC”) held that a unique term created in a fictional work is capable of being protected as a prior right to inv...