The Intellectual Property Court of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) handled 6,183 cases in 2022, up 18% from 2021, according to a report released by the SPC last Thursday. Of the new cases handled in 2022, 1338 concerned strategic emerging industries.
The European Patent Office received 19,041 patent applications from china in 2022, up 15.1 percent on the precious year and a new record (the largest increase among the 20 major application countries and regions), according to the EPO’s Patent Index 2022 released on Tuesday.
The 2023 Legal Forum on Intelligent Connected Vehicle will kick off on March 30, 2023 at the Broadcasting Tower Hotel Beijing. The hybrid forumaims to promote innovation development and improve legal environment of the ICV Industry.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.
Essentiality checks could help implementers determine with whom they need patent licenses. However, essentiality checking does a poor job in adjusting for over-declaration in patent counts and will encourage even more spurious declarations.
