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On October 17, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress has adopted and published the Fourth Amendment to the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China. This Amendmen...
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25 Sep2020Abstract: Trademark crimes stipulated by the PRC Criminal Law are different from the general trademark infringement acts in terms of regulation scopes, degrees of severity, e...
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04 Sep2020In China, invention patent applications are subject to an "early publication, late examination" system, in which applications are published after the expiration of a period of 18 months, and...
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25 Jul2020In accordance with Chapter 10 of Part 2 of the Examination Guideline, as for a claim of a chemical product which cannot be clearly characterized merely by features of structure and/or composit...
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Abstract: In China, judges often feel difficult in identifying technical facts in patent litigations. More participants are involved such as appraisers, technical investigators and expert aux...
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06 Jul2020Recently, the Supreme People’s Court issued a draft open for public comment on the Rules on the Application of Evidence in Civil Litigation Cases on IP Rights. The Evidentiary Rules are at the s...
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22 Jun2020I. Summary Polymorphism refers to the presence of at least two or more different molecular arrangements in the solid state of a compound, resulting in the formation of crystals in many ...
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22 Jun2020In April 2020, the Supreme People's Court (“SPC”) issued “Trial Gist of SPC IP Court (2019)”, in which 36 typical cases are selected from all technology-related IP cases co...
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With the quick development of Chinese economy, Chinese market becomes non-negligible for both of Chinese companies and foreign companies. Chinese government attached great importance to Intellectual p...
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09 Jun2020With the rapid development of science and technology, the protection of innovations is increasingly attracting attention from countries all over the world. In response, a greater number of enterprises...
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Chinese Patent Law (CPL) protects three types of patents, namely, invention patent, utility model patent and design patent. Among them, utility model patent becomes more welcome to the applicants beca...
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23 May2020Abstract: Equivalent features mean the features that use substantially the same means, realize substantially the same function and achieve substantially the same effect as the technical features indic...
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12 May2020In China, according to the provisions of the current Patent Examination Guidelines for supplementary experimental data, it is stated that “experimental data submitted after the application date ...
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08 May2020Trade secret is one of the most important intangible assets for all enterprises, and a valuable bargaining chip for the enterprises to gain competitive advantages in the market. On one hand, without a...
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20 Apr2020The intellectual property protection of a microorganism is a hot topic in the field of biotechnology. Recently, Beijing Intellectual Property Court has concluded the first case on infringement of a pa...
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10 Apr2020On 28 January 2020, National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC (CNIPA) issued a public notice on Time Limits for Handling Affairs Regarding Patents, Trademarks and Layout-Designs of Integrated...
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09 Apr2020When determining whether a technology seeking protection in a patent application possesses inventiveness, an examiner usually needs to make several assessments, for example, regarding technical improv...
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06 Jan2020In the patent field, discovering new therapeutic uses of drugs is known as invention for medical use. In the current patent system, an invention that uses known substance or composition that has not b...
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28 Dec2019China has been the world’s largest manufacturer for nearly a decade now, with much of its manufacturing consisting of original equipment manufacturing (OEM) under contract for export. Thousands ...
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04 Dec2019In a patent infringement dispute, the patentee has a certain choice as to whether the dispute is handled by the patent administration department or by the court. However, whether the dispute is ...