Our Managing Director Jennifer Che gave a guest lecture on Protecting Your Start-Up through IP as part of the Entrepreneurship 101 Training Program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She shared with the students the fundamentals of IP and why the understanding of IP is important for businesses.
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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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China Announcing More Proposed Amendments to the Examination Guidelines in 2022
17 November 2022It’s been a year and a half since the new Chinese Patent Law came into effect (1 June 2021). Although various versions of draft Examination Guidelines have been released, thus far no official finalized versions have been confirmed. On October 31, 2022, yet another new list of proposed amendments was published1, this time consolidating the […]
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CHINA: How Prohibiting "Illegal" Inventions Runs into Food Safety Law
22 October 2021Chinese Patent Law has an interesting provision that specifically prohibits patent protection on “illegal” or “immoral” inventions. What does this mean, exactly? According to Article 5.1 of the Chinese Patent Law, “no patent shall be granted for an invention that contravenes any law or social moral or that is detrimental to public interests.” On its […]
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Chinese Courts Cares More About Patent Quality Now (A Doctrine of Equivalents Story)
13 December 2022There is no doubt that the drafting quality of a patent can be crucial in determining the success (or failure!) of the patent during litigation. However, due to various reasons, patents often fail to use the right drafting strategies that best protect the invention. Too often, inexperienced or unsophisticated patent drafters merely listen to an […]
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