Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Limited, gave a lecture to the students of the LLM course at the City University of Hong Kong.

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Everything you need to know about Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in China

7 May 2024
We previously discussed patent term compensation for patent office delay (‘Patent Term Adjustment’ or ‘PTA’) when such new system was introduced in the Fourth Amendment of the Chinese Patent Law (2020), as well as in the different versions of the Draft Examination Guidelines released in 2021 and 2022. In this article, we consolidate everything you need to […]

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The Chinese Patent Office (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 not limited […]

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From Faces to Football Fields: How Applying AI Models to Different Application Fields Can Prove Inventive in China

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