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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China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Inventive Step for Biological / Life Science Inventions (Part III)

30 April 2021
This is Part III of a three-part series summarizing the Examination Guidelines that were released by the CNIPA on January 15, 2021, one year to the date of Phase 1 of the US and China Economic and Trade Agreement. That agreement included specific provisions where China "shall permit pharmaceutical patent applicants to rely on supplemental […]

Finally a unified “Court of Appeal” for technology IP in China

22 January 2019
On October 26, 2018, China’s Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) received approval to establish a specialized intellectual property court within the SPC to handle appeal cases involving technology-related IP for both civil (e.g., patent infringement) and administrative (e.g., patent invalidity) judgments. Technology-related IP includes invention patents, utility models, new plant species, IC design, trade secret, software, […]

Do Promotional Marketing Materials Constitute an “Offer for Sale” under Chinese Patent Law? Bayer IP GmbH v. Nanjing Hang Seng Pharmaceutical

12 December 2023
Bayer's blockbuster drug Rivaroxaban has seen its share of patent litigations in China, several of which are big enough to be listed as Top 10 IP cases or 50 Representative IP cases. We summarized an invalidation case back in 2020 where all of Bayer’s claims directed towards the compound were upheld. Recently, another Rivaroxaban case […]

Is it Sufficient to Claim an Antibody only by Describing its Antigen?

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Things may be brewing with respect to antibody inventions. Just how much description is sufficient? After losing in the Federal Circuit, Amgen has decided to ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on a standard that could vastly influence the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The story relates to Repatha™, an LDL-lowering drug from Amgen […]
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