Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Limited, gave a talk titled “IP Protection Strategies for Drugs” at the Hong Kong Productivity Council for the forum “如何利用防偽技術保護藥品商標及品牌研討會(II)”.

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2019 CHINA TOP 10 IP CASE: VALEO V. LUCAS, FUKE, & CHEN

8 June 2020
Every year in the spring The Supreme People’s Court of PRC announces its “Top 10 Intellectual Property (IP) cases” and “50 typical IP cases in Chinese courts” of the year. Although not having precedential weight, these cases serve as a reference and guide people's courts at all levels regarding their intellectual property trials. It’s always […]

Breaking News: Newest Draft Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law Available for Public Comment

10 July 2020
Finally, after more than a year since the last draft amendment came out in 2019, a new draft has been submitted to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee for deliberation on June 28, 2020. The newest version is now published for public comments until August 16, 2020. As a whole, these proposed changes address a […]

Do Promotional Marketing Materials Constitute an “Offer for Sale” under Chinese Patent Law? Bayer IP GmbH v. Nanjing Hang Seng Pharmaceutical

12 December 2023
Bayer's blockbuster drug Rivaroxaban has seen its share of patent litigations in China, several of which are big enough to be listed as Top 10 IP cases or 50 Representative IP cases. We summarized an invalidation case back in 2020 where all of Bayer’s claims directed towards the compound were upheld. Recently, another Rivaroxaban case […]

China Proposes New Examination Guidelines for Utility Models

24 November 2022
The Utility Model (UM) in China has always been a popular choice for patent filing due to its relatively low cost and speed of prosecution. The UM prosecution only includes a preliminary examination, which is essentially a mini (stripped down) version of an invention application’s substantive examination.1 With the simplified examination process, UMs are typically […]
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