Our Principal, Ms. Yolanda Wang, was invited by the Hong Kong Productivity Council to be one of the panelists at the Hong Kong Patent Landscape Report Launching Ceremony last Thursday. Yolanda, alongside other distinguished panelists, shared their insights on Hong Kong’s capabilities and the opportunities that arise from emerging trends in innovations and patent protection within the city.
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Burden Shift: CNIPA Requires Applicant to “Prove” that Post-Filing Data is not Fake Data
1 April 2025“Good Faith” is a challenging concept that brings with it the nuances of a particular jurisdiction’s ideas about honesty, moral values, and societal expectations. Most patent laws around the world include good faith requirements – especially in matters involving the legal and the medical profession – and China is no exception. So what’s the standard? […]
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China Proposes New Examination Guidelines for Utility Models
24 November 2022The Utility Model (UM) in China has always been a popular choice for patent filing due to its relatively low cost and speed of prosecution. The UM prosecution only includes a preliminary examination, which is essentially a mini (stripped down) version of an invention application’s substantive examination.1 With the simplified examination process, UMs are typically […]
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A More Detailed Overview of China’s Patent Term Extension (PTE) System
17 June 2024Although PTE has been in the Chinese Patent Law since the 4th Amendment of the law came into effect June 1, 2021, we didn’t really know the exact details of how it operated until the Implementation Regulations and Examination Guidelines (“Implementation Regulations”) were finally released in December 2023. New Rules 77-84 in the Implementation Regulations […]
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New Remedy in China for Fixing "Errors" in a Patent Application: Incorporation by Reference
21 March 2024Background As mentioned in our earlier article, the Implementation Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law (“Regulations”, similar to the CFR in the US) were approved in November, and the CNIPA finally made public the full text of the Regulations just before the arrival of the New Year. At the same time, the CNIPA also released the new […]
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