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China Releases Draft Implementation Guidelines for the Drug Administration Law

2 June 2022
The latest draft implementation guidelines for China’s Drug Administration Law (“Guidelines”) are out and open for comment. Previously, the new implementation measures for early dispute resolution mechanisms for drug patents (“Patent Linkage Measures”) came into effect on July 4, 2021. The Guidelines indicate that the final approval of generic chemical drug applications for marketing approval […]

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21 October 2025
As AI models become versatile and adaptable across multiple contexts and industries, questions about inventive step sit at the heart of patent examination in China. The 2023 Patent Examination Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as 'the Guidelines') included several sessions dedicated to explaining how inventive step should be examined for AI-related inventions, featuring examples related to […]

Why Do Examiners Fail to Recognize the Importance of my “Parameter Features”?

28 May 2025
The Impact of Parameter Features on Inventiveness ”Parameter features” – numerical or mathematical expressions that define the quantity or physical properties of a subject – frequently appear as technical features within a claim. Often described as numerical ranges or measurements, they frequently play a critical role in addressing technical problems. However, in practice, Examiners and […]

Narrow Claim Scope of a Chinese Utility Model Patent Fuels Design-Arounds by Failing to Curb Competing Products:

28 October 2020
Learning 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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