The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on April 26 released the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement and Protection Report 2021 (《2021年中国知识产权保护状况》). China’s State Council published two foundational documents the Guidelines for Building a Powerful Country with Intellectua
China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has lately approved the establishment of China’s 27th intellectual court (IP) tribunal in the Quanzhou Intermediate People’s Court of Fujian province, the country’s eighth richest province by gross domestic product (GDP) of 2021. With the approval, there will be
The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on March 31 released a second list of exemplary administrative enforcement cases. The list is meant to follow up the first list of 10 exemplary cases released by the government agency on December 14, 2020. Different from most other juri
Earlier yesterday (March 31,2022), the 38th Session of the Fifteenth Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress voted to pass Regulations on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Beijing （《北京市知识产权保护条例》）, for better
China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance on March 25 jointly issued a notice about the rates of the maintenance annuity of design patents and the individual designation fee for both international design patent applications and first renewals of international registr
