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- Revised Patent Examination Guidelines: China Relaxing Barriers to Business Method and Software Patents
- Effective April 1, 2017, revised Guidelines for Patent Examination (Guidelines) has taken place, which guide
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- The Possible Improvement in China’s Patent Invalidation Declaration System
- Since October 2015, fierce patent war has broken out between Sogou and Baidu. On the one hand, this patent litigation has attracted wide attention because of its involvement with China’s two giants on
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- Current Analysis and Recommendation for Determination of Common Knowledge in Patent Administrative Cases
- The term "common knowledge” is a usual concept in administrative cases related with patent granting and validation. A technique should be recognized as common knowledge, as long as it has been widely
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- Analysis of the Path to Solve the Conflict of Rights in Patent Licensing Confirmation
- The conflict of rights is common during licensing of intellectual property. Although there also may be conflicts between other civil rights, the intangibility of the object to be protected by intellec
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- Points of Attention to Get a Patent in Russia after the Recent Revision of the Civil Code
- Article 1376 requires that the claims of a utility model application relate to a single utility model viz., it will no longer be possible to file a group of utility models in a single application.
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- First Release of the Investigation Report on the Execution of the China Annual Patent Fees System
- The 7th Patent Information Annual Conference of China (PIAC) took place in Beijing from September 19 to September 20, 2016, during which the China IP Magazine held a presentation of the Investigation
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- Chic Invalidated Opponent’s Critical Patents and Rose from Crisis
- On 1 July 2016, Patent Reexamination Board of State Intellectual Property Office declared invalid the patents for the utility model of two-wheeled electric vehicle (patent number: 201320128469.4) held
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- Common Legal Issues in the Adaptation of Online Games
- The 38th CNNIC Report shows that, of the online entertainment applications, online games rank only second to online music and online videos in terms of the number of users, up to 55.1%.
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- Typical Patent Cases in China
- According to the data released by the State Intellectual Property Office of China, there were over 1 million applications for invention patents in 2015 in China, setting a new record high in annual fi
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- CIVIL PATENT CASES
- The plaintiff Shenzhen Jiangzhe Technology Co., Ltd. is the holder of a design patent called “portable power source”, but the plaintiff finds the defendant Dongguan Huiyan Electronic Co., Ltd. as the