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28 Apr2021In a design patent application, we often encounter that the claimed design comprises two or more parts. In the case of this type of claimed product design, it involves the problem of products in set a...
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03 Apr2021A two‑year pilot between the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the European Patent Office (EPO) has started on December 1, 2020, enabling nation...
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19 Mar2021In the process of a trademark registration application, the applicant is likely to encounter the obstacle posed by a "cited trademark". To remove this obstacle, filing a requ...
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19 Feb2021Three years following a successful trademark registration, if a third party files an application for "Three year non-use registration cancellation", the trademark rights hold...
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18 Feb2021Businesses entering a new market may be concerned with many issues, and one of them should be their valid registration and use of trademarks for the goods or services to be offered under that ...
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05 Feb2021The CNIPA has made a decision on amending the Guidelines for Patent Examination, which takes into effect on January 15, 2021. It is made for Chapter 10, Part Ⅱ of the Guideline...
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Article 50 of the Trademark Law stipulates that "If a registered trademark is revoked, nullified or subject to no renewal upon expiration of the period of validity, the Trademark Office shall not...
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Colour will make a brand more impressive. Some colours have been deeply integrated into the brand’s DNA, which become an indispensable part of the brand image. For example, light...
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30 Dec2020Xi Jinping, President of People’s Republic of China, issued Presidential Decree No.55 on November 11, 2020, announcing The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People&r...
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22 Dec2020The fourth amendment of the Patent Law paid more attention to the balance between the interests of patentees and the public, introduced the clauses of good faith and fairness, introduced punitive dama...
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22 Dec2020The doctrine of equivalents is an important principle in patent infringement disputes. It could prevent the accused infringer evading liability for the infringement by making insubstantial changes to ...
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22 Dec2020I. Introduction Recently, the Supreme Court of China made the latest judgment of the validity of Xiao-i Chat Robot patent. This case has received widespread attention over its life cy...
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As the protection of intellectual property, an intangible right, has been paid more and more attention to in various countries around the world, patent rights are the most closely related to the devel...
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18 Nov2020On November 11th, 2020, the latest amendment of the Copyright Law has been passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the PRC (hereinafter the “Amendment...
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10 Nov2020Chinese Patent Law is established in 1985 and has been revised three times before 2020. After nearly ten years' discussions on the fourth revision of the Patent Law, it has finally settled recentl...
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05 Nov2020With the astounding development of the national economy, people’s quality of life has been improving and cultural products have become wider in variety. People are pursuing enter...
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02 Nov2020Foreign enterprises usually use their original foreign trademarks to gain the brand awareness in the early stage of their entering in China. With further development of brand protection and cultural e...
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Abstract For citation of documents in the description, considerations in practice are usually focused on drafting of the background art. However, when it comes to legal issues such as "whether o...
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26 Oct2020On October 17, 2020, Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, issued Presidential Decree No. 55, announcing the “Decision of the Standing Committee of the National Pe...
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26 Oct2020In determining the inventive step of a patent, the “three-step method” is mainly used, that is, to determine the closest prior art, to determine the distinguishing features...