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 […]
Qualcomm’s Litigation Strategies and Recent IP Developments in China
反者道之動。弱者道之用。 (道德經, Chap. 40) (Return is the movement of the Dao. Yielding is the way of the Dao. Daodejing, Chap. 40.) To the uninitiated, Qualcomm’s licensing practices in China must appear confusing. […]
Revised Patent Infringement Judicial Interpretation Released
The Supreme People’s Court published its revised judicial interpretation on patent infringement litigation. I previously blogged about the early draft here. Here is a Chinese language article on the press conference announcing […]
Slouching Towards Innovation – A Survey of the Surveys on China’s IP Environment
Here is a summary of the business surveys on IP protection in China, drawn from the European Chamber of Commerce in China, Business Confidence Survey 2015 (June, 2015), the US China Business […]
Justice Tao Kaiyuan and the Role of the Judiciary
Justice Tao Kaiyuan of the Supreme People’s Court, who had been to the United States in 2015 delivering important speeches on rule of law, has recently published an article on “Giving Full […]
WIPO, SIPO and USPTO: US-China Patent Filing Trends
Chinese Activity at WIPO A WIPO report released on March 19 noted that Huawei, with 3,442 published PCT applications, overtook Panasonic as the largest applicant in 2014. Qualcomm was the second largest […]
On Presidents, Leaders and Patents
Today, February 15, 2015, is the Presidents Day holiday in the United States. This holiday celebrates the birthdays of two of America’s greatest presidents, George Washington (February 22), and Abraham Lincoln (February […]
Prison Inventions and Patent Subsidies
The South China Morning Post reported recently on jailhouse inventors, a topic that you may have first read about here. According to the SCMP and Beijing Youth Daily, various provinces have different […]
Standards and IP – December Updates
Nearly every week there is a new development somewhere in the world on IP and standards. China has been no exception. I already blogged about several of them of them, including EIPC […]
A Quick Report on the EIPC MIIT Conference Including SAIC’s IP Abuse Rules, Patent Law Amendments, EIPC MIIT Standardization Policies, Standards and IP Abuse…
EIPC MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts, including lawyers, judges, academics, […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 