Vice President Jennifer Che gave a talk at the Swiss Patent Attorney Associations and the Swiss Professional Attorney Association of Industrial Patent Attorneys (VESPA/VIPS) annual autumn seminar about key upcoming changes in China’s new Patent Law as well as other related new measures that are particularly relevant to pharma/biotech companies, including patent term extension, patent linkage, post-filing data, litigation reform, and patent eligibility in the biotech/pharma area.

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