On July 14, Chinese drone maker DJI Technology filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Textron in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, accusing Textron of infringing four of its US patents involving the control, communications and navigation of drones.
On July 11, the second WIPO Global Awards ceremony was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the seven award-winning companies from around the world include two Chinese companies: Shanghai Westwell Technology, which develops multi-scenario smart and green logistics solutions.
On July 4, the European Patent Office (EPO) officially announced that Wu Kai, the chief scientist of CATL, and his team have won the European Inventor Award 2023 for the “Non-EPO countries” from more than 600 candidates.
By the end of 2022, the number of valid invention patents in China was 4.212 million, up 17.1 percent year-on-year.; the number of valid utility model patents was 10.835 million, up 17.2 percent; and the number of valid design patents was 2.832 million, up 9.7 percent.
On June 29, China Intellectual Property Society(CIPS) released the 2022 Investigation Report on IP Disputes of Chinese Enterprises in the US. According to the report, a total of 986 new intellectual property lawsuits of Chinese enterprises were filed in the US in 2022, up 14.39%.
