20 Chinese Patented Gold Awards Granted in the 19th Ceremony for Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention & Industrial Design
On December 13, the 19th Ceremony for Award for Chinese Patented Invention & Industrial Design, jointly hosted by SIPO and WIPO, was held in Beijing. Total 25 gold awards were granted, including 20 for Chinese patented inventions and 5 for Chinese industrial designs. 870 honorable mentions were granted, with 802 for Chinese patented invention, 68 for Chinese industrial design. Relevant products or engineering projects of the 25 gold award patents have generated great profits from the date patent implementation to the end of 2016, with new sales of 93.9 billion yuan, newly increased profits of 9.6 billion yuan and newly export sales of 24.4 billion yuan.
Shanghai IPR Court Releases Guidance on Trial of Trade Secrets Infringement Disputes
Recently, Shanghai IPR Court released Guidance on Trial of Trade Secrets Infringement Disputes (Guidance), with an aim to further unify the ruling approach on those trade secrets infringement disputes. As the cases about trade secrets infringement are increasing in recent years, judges face various difficulties in handling such kind of cases. Thus, how to provide effective guidance on trial of these cases has become an urgent issue to be resolved. The Guidance formulated under such circumstance provides regulation on 6 aspects of case trial concerning fixing the request of plaintiff for litigation, confirming the defense opinions of defendants etc.
Specifications for Patent Agencies Services to be Implemented on January 1, 2018
Specifications for Patent Agencies Services (Standard No. GBT34833-2017) has been officially issued and will be implemented on January 1, 2018. This document is drafted by State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C, All-China Patent Attorneys Association, Intellectual Property Office of Jiangsu Province and Intellectual Property Research Center of Jiangsu Province. It focuses on the core target of improving quality provided by patent agencies, from the perspective of standardizing service quality management, putting forward requirements for institution management, business management, service, service evaluation and improvement, and addressing the prominent problems in services provided by patent agencies.
President Xi Highlights the Importance to Strengthen Reform and Innovation in IP Trial Field
On November 20, president Xi Jinping hosted the first session of the 19th central leading team for comprehensively deepening reform and delivered significant speech and passed Opinions on Strengthening Reform and Innovation in IP Trial Field. It stresses that in order to strengthen reform and innovation in IP trial field, we should fully play leading role of IP judicial protection; set up the concept that protecting IP is to protect innovation; improve IP litigation system; strengthen systematic construction of IP courts, generally promote quality efficiency of IP trial and optimize legal environment of technological creation.
China Officially Launches Its Electronic Bulletin System for Trademark
Trademark Office of The State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China has always been an active promoter to the implementation of electronic bulletin system for trademark. On November 6, 2017, the office made its first electronic bulletin via website this month (total the 1574th) stating that the launch of electronic bulletin system for trademark has been successfully completed. The launch of this new system will significantly shorten waiting period for appliers to publish their trademark, enlarge the capacity for bulletin publication. The electronic bulletin project for trademark plays a vital role in carrying out State Council's “Pipes Suit Reform” and the reform of facilitating the registration procedure for trademark.
Trademark Office Releases Its Opinions on Further Promoting the Reform of Facilitating Registration for Trademark
On November 17, Trademark Office of the P.R.C. released Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Facilitating Registration for Trademark to Improve Processing Efficiency of The State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the P.R.C. and put the Opinions on its website. The Opinions include the following contents: at the end of 2017, the time of issuing acceptance notifications for those applying registration for trademark will be reduced from 3 months to 2 months, the examination period for trademark registration will be cut down from 9 months to 8 months. On the above basis, it will achieve following targets: at the first half of 2018, it will further reduce the time for issuing notifications by releasing acceptance notifications for trademark registration via Internet and enabling those who applied to print the notifications directly from the Internet.
Beijing IP Court Launches a Wechat Litigation Platform
On November 7, a pilot operation has been launched in Beijing Intellectual Property Court via the mini program of Wechat Litigation Platform with Faxin and was developed by joint efforts from Tencent Co. as well as Gridsum Holding Inc. under the proposal of Courtbook Group. The pilot operation indicates that China now has its first mobile platform which aims to provide services such as mediation, trial and lawsuit via wechat for court. In the future, dispute resolution can be conducted in Beijing IP Court in a long-distance way via mini program of wechat in mobile phones. With regard to the detailed procedures, when the user opened the mini program, after a face verifying step, the system will automatically link to related cases and information to the user.
SIPO Signs Agreement with EU as Both Sides Share Goals
With more than 30 years of development, the cooperation between China's State Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office has evolved from a technical partnership to a strategic one, EPO President Benoit Battistelli said in a recent news conference in Beijing. The two sides signed a new comprehensive strategic partnership agreement on November 23 with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two offices and providing better services for global intellectual property users and contributing to improvements in the world's IP system.
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