
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Thomson Reuters just released a new report on China’s Innovation Quotient (Trends in Patenting and China’s Trends in Global Innovation). This is the fourth in a very useful multi-year series on Chinese […]
Here is a digest of some of the highlights of the half day program hosted by MofCOM on IP in Washington DC on September 12. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate gave a useful […]
SIPO’s six month report on patent filings, available on line in China shows some surprising data for the first six months of 2014. Regionally, Jiangsu and Beijing are in the number 1 […]
The American Bar Association has released its comments on the recently released draft judicial interpretation (JI) on patent litigation, no. 2, available here. Articles 1, 10 and 24 deal with patent law […]
Many media, including the Wall Street Journal, have reported on Tianjin police chief, Wu Changshun 武長順, who seems to be following in the footsteps of Chengdu police chief Wang Lijun, 王立军 as […]
On July 16, the Supreme Peoples Court published a public comment draft of proposed revisions to its “Decision of the SPC Regarding Questions of Application of Law in Adjudication of Patent Cases”, […]
As I previously blogged, SIPO was considering amending its patent examination guidelines to permit design patent protection for graphical user interfaces (GUI’s). The new examination guidelines were promulgated by SIPO on March […]
On December 11, SIPO, USPTO and other patent offices (Japan, EPO, Germany and Korea) as well as companies and their counsel will be participating in an exciting international utility model program at […]