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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China Provides Specific Directions to Strengthen Patent / Technology Protection from 2020 to 2021
23 April 2020China continues to progress towards its major goal of significantly strengthening IP protection within its borders. Last year it announced several proposed amendments to its patent laws. In January 2020 China and the US signed the Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of China and US (published 16 January 2020 –“Trade Agreement”), which detailed […]
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A Detailed Dive into China’s New Patent Term Extension Provisions
11 December 2020This article is a part of a larger article that highlights the newest draft implementation rules of the new Chinese Patent Law. This particular article takes a detailed dive into the patent term extension/adjustment provisions. One of the biggest and most exciting provisions in the newly amended patent law is patent term extension for delay […]
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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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New Fee Standards Released for Chinese Patent Applications
6 September 2024Recently, the Chinese government issued four official notices introducing new fee standards and deduction rules for Chinese patent applications.1 These updates address international applications (PCT applications) and the Chinese national phase applications thereof, as well as patent term adjustment/extension (PTA/PTE). Please find our summary below: PCT application fee deduction rules Application fee & extra […]
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