Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Group, chaired a panel discussion titled “Intellectual Property Protection In Life Science” at the Hong Kong Biotech Horizon 2017: Global Congress on Biotechnology: Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
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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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Inventive Step for an Enantiomer over a Racemate: “L-ornidazole” Patent Invalidation Case
27 November 2023Each year, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issues its annual “Judgment Digests”, which includes a list of “48 typical cases” highlighting representative SPC decisions in the previous year. The Judgment Digests help us understand more about the SPC’s judicial ideology, trial concepts, and adjudication methods in dealing with difficult and sophisticated legal issues as well […]
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First ever Invalidation decision on an RNAi Invention patent in China
4 December 2023Decision on Examination of Request for Invalidation (No. 58530) In one of China’s Top 10 Patent Re-examination / Invalidation cases of 2022, an invalidation decision on a patent claiming Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) RNAi compositions (No. 58530) by the Patent Re-examination Board (the “Board”) sheds light on the standard for post filing data for rejections […]
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China Finally Clamps Down on Facial Recognition Technology
24 August 2021Snippets of Court Cases, Provisions, and Key Observations about China’s IP Landscape Around the end of July 2021, the Supreme People’s Court issued a new Provision concerning the application of law about a super-hot technology, facial recognition. This Provision is a legal explanation from the SPC explaining how the law should be applied or interpreted […]
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