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 […]
Innovative pharmaceutical companies have been facing a number of challenges in obtaining or maintaining patents in China. One of these issues has involved progressively more restrictive interpretations of Art. 26.3 of the […]
Chen Fuli, IP Attaché at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC the morning of December 5. The program is free of charge, but seating may be limited. You should RSVP at: lishuai@mofcom.gov.cn. […]
Along with Prof. Zhen Lei of Penn State, I have previously blogged about the late autumn surge in patent filings in China, in 2012, as well as in prior years. This autumnal […]
Mark Allen Cohen (柯恒} is a Distinguished Senior Fellow, Director and Lecturer of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. In total, he has nearly 40 years of private sector, public sector, etc., in-house and academic experience on IPR issues in China, including numerous publications and awards. This is his private blog.
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