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Chinese companies Anker and Tineco sued for patent infringement in US

US vacuum cleaner manufacturer Bissell Inc. and Bissell Homecare, Inc. on Feb. 1 filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a District Court of Delaware against Tineco Intelligent Inc., a subsidiary of TEK (Hong Kong) Science & Technology Ltd., of manufacturing a

Chofn IP report shows most of patent invalidation requests filed on utility model patents in 2021

Chofn IP, China’s only listed intellectual property agency, on Feb. 9 released a report analyzing the 5,240 requests for trials for invalidation against patent owners at the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) in 2021.

China’s 5 generic drugmakers to produce cheap version of Merck oral COVID-19 pill for low-income countries

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced on January 20 that it has signed agreements with 27 generic manufacturing companies for the manufacturing of the oral COVID-19 antiviral medication molnupiravir and supply in 105 low- and-middle-income countries (LMICs).

Chinese drugmaker HEC Pharm loses patent lawsuit against Novartis

​A U.S. appeals court affirmed a win on Monday for Swiss drugmaker Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp against Chinese generic drugmaker HEC Pharm Co Ltd, finding that a patent covering the blockbuster multiple-sclerosis drug Gilenya is valid and a proposed HEC generic would infringe i

China’s patent-intensive industries in figures in 2020

​China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the China Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on December 30 jointly release some data to indicate the growth of China’s patent-intensive industries in 2020.