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China’s Amended Patent Examination Guidelines: Human Stem Cells that Developed Ex Vivo Are Patentable

On 23 September 2019, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) launched the 2019 amended Patent Examination Guidelines (Chinese), which became effective on 1 November 2019.  In comparison to the draft amendments of 4 April 2019, things have not much changed. … Continue reading

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Avoiding Waste: Patent Prosecution Highway pilots between China and Chile, and China and Czech Republic

According to Memoranda of Understanding between China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the Industrial Property Institute of Chile (INAPI), and SIPO and the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic (IPO-CZ), both combinations will start a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) … Continue reading

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Reduction of China’s Patent Fees Increases Challenges For Patent Quality

  Since 2011, China is the world leader in the number of published invention patent applications (also the number of utility model and design patents is rising). China is in the process of doubling its number of patent applications (from more … Continue reading

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Hong Kong will probably get independent patent, China’s SIPO will teach HK how to examine

  After some welcome words of Professor Michael Hor (photo middle), the relatively new Dean of the Faculty of Law of HKU, Professor Paul Cheung (photo: right), Associate Vice President, Director of HKU Tech Transfer Office, talked briefly about the … Continue reading

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Imbalance in China’s IP Development Points to Relevance of Location, Location and Location

Where in China are my intellectual property rights most safe, or where in China can I enforce my IPRs best in case of an infringement or commercial dispute? To answer these questions one should ask first where is intellectual property … Continue reading

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Bear and Dragon Try the Water for Fast Patent Examination Stream

After the U.S.A (USPTO)., Germany (DPMA), Korean (KIPO) and Japan (JPO), Russia might become the fifth country to have a patent prosecution highway with China.   State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)’s commissioner Tian Lipu signed a Memorandum of Understanding with … Continue reading

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Hong Kong’s Original Grant Patent, Reciprocity And Hong Kong’s Future As Legal Hub

On the last day one can send his or her opinion on the patent registration system in Hong Kong to the government, you will find an overview of what we can expect and what we can hope for. The patent system … Continue reading

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Patent Law: What is the best mode for the best mode disclosure requirement?

Bingbin Lu has an interesting short paper (9 pages only) on the best mode disclosure for patent applications. The author is answering two questions: whether a developing country should implement the best mode disclosure requirement and if so, how to … Continue reading

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John Marshall Law School Launches Chinese IP Resource Center in Chicago

A new wind from China has arrived in the windy cityPhoto: Danny Friedmann John Marshall Law School located in Chicago, US, has launched a Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center, see here. Since 2007 the law school also has a China IP … Continue reading

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Sunday Local Selection: 95.6 mln RMB question, Hebei good/bad/ugly, new BMW product?, Taiwan Straits IP Centre, Nanning achievements, Starve Cancer to Death Medicine

Some local news items of China Intellectual Property 中國知識產權, Xinhuanet.com, Hebei.gov.cn, CNR.cn, Stats.gov.cn and China Quality Daily were presented in one article by China Daily about the following locations: Beijing, Hebei, Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong. The 95.6 million Renminbi questionThe first item … Continue reading

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Reptilian reportage

IP Komodo may have a forked tongue, but he speaks the IP truth! He has trawled this weeks China IP news and the hottest topic appears to be sightings of IP Dragon, with fiery tongue, sighted in the vicinity and … Continue reading

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The Lizard’s weekly news roundup

Some of the more interesting news stories IP Komodo has spotted this week: CNN reports on the growth in counterfeit wine trade in China. Destruction of the bottles is now common practice at the auction houses, for original fine wine … Continue reading

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Tian Lipu: “No Plagiarism ’cause China’s High Speed Rail Systems Climb Mountains”

At the ‘Third Intellectual Property and Urban Development Mayor Forum’, November 22, 2010, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) commissioner Tian Lipu refuted allegations that China’s high speed rail systems are based on plagiarism. See IP Dragon’ article ‘Knowledge Transfer … Continue reading

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China’s Efforts To Promote a Culture for IPR and IPR Exploitation

Zhong Yonghua, official of the Legal Affairs Department of the State Intellectual Property Organisation (SIPO) gave a presentation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in the Japanese city Sendai, last September, 2010, which included information about how China is … Continue reading

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Don’t Feed The Patent Trolls in China and Start Your Own IP Team

Tian Lipu, commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) visited Samsung, according to the China Daily. Mr Tian was told by the Keun-Hee Park, president of Samsung’s operations in China that patent trolls were on the rise. One can … Continue reading

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National IP Strategy 2010 Is Coming

In 2008 China launched a comprehensive National IP Strategy, read ‘Feasible Commitments or Road To Nowhere Paved With Good Intentions‘. March 1, 2010, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) announced that during the second liaison officer meeting a draft of … Continue reading

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Beijing Subsidies for Foreign Patents: Allowed Or Not? Smart Or Not?

October 9, 2009 the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, subsidiary of SIPO for the Beijing Municipality promulgated a circular on Applying for Special Funds for Financing Patent Applications in Foreign Countries. It stated: “Each United Concerned, According to the requirements of … Continue reading

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Almost One Million Patent Applications in China in 2009

China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) reports the following statistics: 976,686 patent applications (up 17.9%) 877,611 domestic (89.9% and up 22.4%) 99,075 from abroad (10.1%, down 10.9%) 229,096 invention-patents (up 17.7%) 308,861 utility model-patents (up 37.9%) 339,654 design-patents (up 13.7%) … Continue reading

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Five IP Offices: The site…

The five biggest patent offices of the world: USPTO (US), SIPO (China), EPO (EU), JPO (Japan) and KIPO (South Korea) cooperate. They have a website and you can see their common projects, here. Hat tip to the IPKat.

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China Leads IP5 Meeting on Jeju Island in South Korea

October 27 and 28, 2008, the IP5 European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO), Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), China’s State Intellectual Property Organisation (SIPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) came together for the second … Continue reading

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The Importance of ‘Practical Applicability’ in China’s Patent Law

Ms Ester H. Lim (Finnegan Shanghai) and Ms Angela Y. Dai (Finnegan Washington, D.C.) wrote a nice article about their take on IP in China for the WorldTrade Magazine called ‘Policy Perspectives: The Current Reality with IP in China’. It … Continue reading

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New Draft Third Patent Law Amendment: Slight Improvements

In the beginning of this year there was not much reason for optimism regarding the third patent law amendment, read ‘Curb your enthousiasm. The earlier draft included the requirement that Chinese legal and natural persons must first apply for patents … Continue reading

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Did Schneider Electric Infringed Its Own French Patent In China?

These days a high voltage commercial dispute is raging in the transnational low voltage products industry about a utility model, (which falls under the Patent Law, see article 2). What happened? Saturday, September 29, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled … Continue reading

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Of IP’s Most Important Figures of 2007 Who is Most Relevant to IP in China?

The magazine Managing Intellectual Property announced IP’s Most Important Figures of 2007. Of this group, who deserved this title because of its role regarding IP in China? Obviously this includes Ms Wu Yi (China’s vice-premier and IP-negotiator) and Mr Tian … Continue reading

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Sino-American WTO Consultations Disaster, Blame Game Ensues

April 10, the US filed two formal complaints against China at the WTO, one for unsufficient IP and one for lack of market access for copyrighted goods. After a formal complaint at the WTO the two parties had 60 days … Continue reading

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China About to Publicise ‘Important’ IPR Cases

Xinhua reports via People’s Daily Online that envoys of foreign governments and representatives of international organizations will be allowed to attend IPR trials if they wish, said Jiang Zengwei of the State Office of Intellectual Property Protection (SIPO), quoting an … Continue reading

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SIPO Deputy Director Does Not Want to Discuss How To Enforce Patent Infringement

SIPO deputy director Zhang Qin was interviewed by Emma Barraclough of Managing Intellectual Property in Geneva. Zhang said: “[T]he counterfeiting and piracy of copyright and trade marks is illegal and should be punished. We have to be trustable. We want … Continue reading

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SIPO: “Digital Radio Standard Will Shake Few Foreign Companies’ Dominance”

SIPO reports that the Ministry of Information Technology released a national standard on multi-channel digital radio coding and decoding technology for the digital radio industry. And it wrote reassuringly: “The standard which be widely used in digital television and digital … Continue reading

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Patent Law Draft About to be Adopted: How Will Patent Law Change?

China Daily’s reports via People’s Daily that China’s third revision of its patent law is drafted. On July 31, 2006 SIPO promulgated the Draft of Amendments to the Patent Law for public comments. Draft amendments to the law were handed … Continue reading

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SIPO’s Patent ABC

SIPO is giving 19 answers to 19 questions about patents.On a whole it gives an fast overview of China’s patent law. It is peculiar that SIPO is giving information (Q&A number 19) about the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, … Continue reading

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Pyrrhic Victory For Anti Patent Pool Professors Against Philips

Remember Zhang Ping, the IPR professor of Peking University who in December 2005 attacked a patent of Philips that was part of the 4C DVD pool because it was alleged to be not essential, read here. Emma Barraclough followed the … Continue reading

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Pfizer Accuses Guangzhou Welman Of Copyright Infringement

Pfizer sued Guangzhou Welman for alleged copyright infringement of Viagra reports Forbes. I wonder why Pfizer’s allegations focused on copyright infringement instead of patent infringement, or both. Or is copyright used mistakingly as the prototype of an intellectual property? Read … Continue reading

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New patent reform China ready next year and special IPR court proposed by SIPO

Liu Weiling of the China Daily wrote that Chinese patent law, promulgated in 1985, was amended in 1992 and 2000, and will be reformed again. “The sections that are likely to be revised will include how to simplify patent application … Continue reading

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