There have been a number of empirical reports in recent weeks on China’s IP system. In this blog, I look at the annual Supreme People’s Court 2017 Report on the Situation Regarding […]
Update on Research on Technology Protectionism and the Chinese Patent System
Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Dr. Emilio Raiteri (both at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland) have recently offered interesting statistical evidence for preferential treatment of domestic applicants […]
SIPO Publishes Proposed Revisions to Patent Examination Guidelines
On October 27, 2016, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) published the Draft (For Public Comment) of Revisions to the Patent Examination Guidelines. The Chinese text is available here. Comments on the draft should […]
