CNIPA and European Patent Office pilot program will commence on December 1, 2020. Chinese patent applicants will be able to choose the European Patent Office as the international searching authority. CNIPA and EPO will initiate a two-year pilot program. According to the program, the international ap
Last for nearly fifteen months, the first Sci-Tech Innovation Board patent dispute, which paid much attention, has achieved significant progress. On October 19, Appotronics published the announcement that Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court has trialed that the company has not infringed the patent
In the past, applying for an invention patent would be taken the waiting period of two to three years to get the result. At the end of February this year, Nantong was approved to build the China (Nantong) IPR Protection Center. Until now, the infrastructure construction has been completed and i
On October 17, the amendment decision of the Patent Law has been passed in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The amendment mainly includes strengthening the protection of the legal rights of the patentees, improve the implementation and application of patent, and complete the
In order to encourage the patentee to voluntarily open up the license and promote the exploitation and use of the patent, some members of the Standing Committee and the general public proposed that that the provisions on incentive measures be increased and that the annual fee paid by the patentee sh
