The patent tug of war between U.S. drone manufacturer Autel Robotics (hereinafter referred to as Autel) and Chinese drone giant DJI Innovation and Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as DJI) since 2018 may make the United States threaten to close DJI imports of high-tech products from the
SHARP, the Japanese electronics company, has been actively filing patent infringement cases in recent months, accusing U.S. TV brand Vizio Inc and Chinese smartphone maker OPPO. On March 10th, SHARPfiled the lawsuit in a US District Court in California against Xianyang CaiHong Optoelectronics T
The above figure shows the average duration (days) of patent invalidation cases grouped by patent types .
Patent invalidation means that where, starting from the date of the announcement of the grant of the patent right by National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC (CNIPA),
The problem this decision highlights is the lack of partial design protection under the China Patent Law, which remains unchanged since its third amendment in 2008.
