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072020.07 Survey: EU Businesses Recognize Marked Improvement in IP Legislation and Enforcement in China On June 10, the European Union (EU) Chamber of Commerce in China, in cooperation with Roland Berger, released its European Business in China Business Confidence Survey 2020. According to the report, EU member companies operating in China believe that they have seen continuous progress on drafting and enforcing of IPR-related regulations in China and marked i... More >
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072020.07 Joint statement of EPO and CNIPA on response to COVID-19 The European Patent Office (EPO) and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) stand in full solidarity with all those affected by COVID-19.After over three decades of strong bilateral co-operation, the EPO and CNIPA have built a comprehensive strategic partnership that contributes to higher quality patents and greater harmonisation in ... More >
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072020.07 CNIPA Issues Criteria on Determining Trademark Infringement The Criteria on Determining Trademark Infringement was introduced by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) to execute the plan of the CCP Central Committee and the State Council on bolstering IP protection, to provide guidelines on trademark enforcement, unify enforcement practice and enhance protection of trademark exclusive rights... More >
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062020.06 Initiative Aims to Put Virus Weapons in Hands of All More than 30 countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, or C-TAP, a new initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all.
Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado, who first proposed the initiative in... More > -
062020.06 China Issues 2020 Action Plan to Accelerate Building IP Powerhouse Recently, the Office of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Meeting>
In terms of deepening IP reform, the Action Plan proposes to improve intellectual property policies, including formulating and issuing policy documents to promote the high-quality development of IP services, replicating and promoting IP protection initiatives in the context of comprehensive ... More > -
052020.05 WIPO Convenes another Video Conference on Temporary Policies and Remedy Measures on IP amid Pandemic... On April 20 (Beijing time), WIPO held another video conference to discuss temporary policies and remedy measures>
The video conference was presided over by WIPO Director General Mr. Francis Gurry. It mainly discussed the enforcement regulations of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the applicable conditions for relevant clauses concerning delay i... More > -
052020.05 Shanghai Courts See Increase in IP Cases Shanghai courts received 23,580 intellectual property lawsuits and IP theft and piracy cases and closed 23,510 of them last year, a rise of 3.97 percent and 6.28 percent respectively, the Shanghai High People's Court said>
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In terms of the lawsuits, the number of those regarding disputes in the areas of franchise contract and patent rig... More > -
042020.04 CNIPA Releases 2019 China Patent Investigation Report Recently, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) publicly released the "2019 China Patent Investigation Report". The Report shows that China has achieved new results in increasing the cost of infringement and optimizing conditions for doing business, and enterprises' strong demand in hardening the groundwork for IP protection; patent u... More >
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042020.04 Value of IP-Intensive Industries Highlighted The added value of China's patent-intensive industries topped 10.7 trillion yuan ($1.51 trillion) in 2018, contributing 11.6 percent to the country's GDP, according to the National Intellectual Property Administration.
Working with the National Bureau of Statistics, CNIPA said it was the first time the country announced the statistic. It also marks t... More > -
032020.03 China's IP Protection Development Is Widely Acknowledged In recent years, China's IP protection work has made remarkable achievements and is widely acknowledged by the IP community, thanks to constant improvement of relevant laws, regulations and policy system, enhancement of law enforcement, profound reform in the field of judicial trial，among other advancement.
China's IP protection is highly recognized... More > -
032020.03 Joseph Straus: "China's Efforts in IP Protection Can Stand Scrutiny" "Since the entering into force of the ever first Chinese patent act in 1985, China has continuously developed and improved its IP protection. Its efforts in this regard can stand scrutiny even in comparison with developments in Japan and Republic of Korea," said Joseph Straus, Professor of Law at the University of Munich, recognizing China's IP achi... More >
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022020.02 Applicants Can Handle Patent, Trademark and Other Services Online Recently, CNIPA has issued a notice that its service windows will be open from February 3, 2020. In order to strengthen the prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia, effectively reduce the gathering of people and block the spread of novel coronavirus, the applicants are advised to handle the services such as patents, trademarks and layout desi... More >
