Dr. Jacqueline Lui, Managing Director of Eagle IP Limited, gave a talk on “Patent Protection & Strategy: What a Startup Company Should Know” at the Pi Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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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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Introducing the New USPTO Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program
10 January 2023Starting from February 1, 2023, the USPTO will begin the new Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program that advances out-of-turn applications that are directed to oncology or smoking cessation. This new program will replace the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program that has been in place since 2016, and covers more technologies than only cancer immunotherapies. Applications […]
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China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Inventive Step for Biological / Life Science Inventions (Part III)
30 April 2021This 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 […]
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