Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Limited, joined the IPO Fact-Finding Trip to China (Beijing), organized by the IPO Asian Practice Committee.
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Breaking News: Newest Draft Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law Available for Public Comment
10 July 2020Finally, 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 […]
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RNAi Patent Success in China: Overcoming “Comprising” Claim Challenges
10 March 2025An Update on Sufficiency and Inventiveness of RNAi Patents in China RNAi is a fast-developing technology that has gained traction in the pharmaceutical industry as a promising therapeutic agent. It is important to follow closely RNAi patent proceedings to learn how different examination boards and courts understand and handle these new technologies. The first-ever invalidation […]
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Is it Sufficient to Claim an Antibody only by Describing its Antigen?
12 November 2018Things may be brewing with respect to antibody inventions. Just how much description is sufficient? After losing in the Federal Circuit, Amgen has decided to ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on a standard that could vastly influence the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The story relates to Repatha™, an LDL-lowering drug from Amgen […]
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How Far Can an Employer Reach to Own Employee-made “Service Inventions”?
30 July 20202019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Cases Shenzhen Weibang Technology Co. Ltd v. Li Jianyi & Shenzhen Yuancheng Intelligence Equipment Co. Ltd (2019最高法民申6342号) Each year in China there are hundreds of disputes over patent ownership. A significant part of them are related to “Service Inventions”, which are defined in Article 6 of the Chinese Patent […]
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