Our Principal, Pauli Wong gave a career talk to students at CUHK on last Friday (17 Mar), sharing about her journey becoming a principal and patent attorney at Eagle IP, from an HKU biotech graduate and a veteran scientist with CK Life Sciences.
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IP Strategies for the Newly Released Implementation Regulations of the 4th Amendment of the Chinese Patent Law: Part 1: Delayed Examination
25 January 2024December 2023 appears to have been an exceptionally busy and fruitful month in the China patent space. Following the State Council’s approval of the long-awaited Patent Law Implementation Regulations (“Regulations”, similar to the CFR in the US) in November, the CNIPA finally made public the full text of the Regulations just before the arrival of […]
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AI, Big Data, and Blockchain - CNIPA seeks public comment on draft patent examination guidelines
21 November 2019Exciting new changes continue to happen with the Chinese Patent Office (CNIPA). On November 12, 2019, the CNIPA published a new set of amendments to Part II Chapter 9 of the Patent Examination Guidelines (“Draft”) and requested public comment by December 11, 2019. In summary, the new guidelines clarify how emerging technologies involving artificial intelligence, […]
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Narrow Claim Scope of a Chinese Utility Model Patent Fuels Design-Arounds by Failing to Curb Competing Products:
28 October 2020Learning from a 2019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Case The number of patent applications in China is now the highest in the world, with more than half the applications filed as utility model applications (UMs). For example, there were more than 2 million UMs filed in 2018 alone (for the difference between a utility […]
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China Releases Details on Patent Term Extension, Deferred Examination and More in the Latest Draft Implementation Rules of the New Chinese Patent Law
11 December 2020The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) is moving forward at breakneck speeds aiming to get all the necessary pieces in place for the June 1, 2021 date when the new 4th Amendment of the Patent Law will come into effect. Most recently, this means a flurry of drafts coming out from CNIPA, including, but […]
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