After nearly 50 years and various attempts to have a ‘unified patent system’ in Europe, on 1 June 2023 we saw the dawning of a new era with the opening of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the beginning of a new patent regime with the Unitary Patent (UP).
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),
