On November 15, Japanese NPE company BWB filed a lawsuit in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing Alibaba of infringing four of its E-commerce U. S. patents (patent numbers: 10,460,366, 11,138,644, 11,776,027, 11,776,028).
Singapore's Solar panel maker Maxeon Solar Technologies' unit filed patent infringement lawsuits against Shanghai Aiko Solar and its subsidiaries in a German court, alleging violation of its European patent for solar cell architectures.
Chinese firms accounted for six of the top 10 global patent holdings in the cybersecurity technology sector as of August, with two making the top three, according to a report from Nikkei Asia on Sunday. Nikkei compiled the data in cooperation with LexisNexis.
China’s State Council has approved the draft implementation rules of its Patent Law at an executive meeting held on November 3, according to news released on Monday. The meeting also urged further improving the patent application and examination system.
On October 26, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) announced on its official website that the CNIPA and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) have jointly decided to extend their Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program for five years from November.
