Last Friday (10/3), our Vice President Jennifer Che met with Grace S N Lau of the Institute for Translational Research of HKSTP and the HKSTP community to discuss the fundamentals of IP and how “common” early-stage business/R&D activities can hurt your IP.




Our Past Events

Jennifer Che has been Recognized in IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2026

26 November 2025

Jennifer Che has been Recognized as IAM Global Leaders 2026

4 November 2025

Eagle IP is Coming to San Francisco and Washington DC!

15 October 2025

Jennifer Che has been listed on the IAM Strategy 300

15 August 2025

Eagle IP Recognized as Top Tier Firm (Tier 1) for Patent Prosecution in IP Stars 2025 Patent Firms Ranking List

3 July 2025

Dr. Jacqueline Lui, Ms. Pauli Wong, and Mr. Eddie Ho Named Patent Stars by ManagingIP

13 June 2025

Recommended Insights

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China Joins Two WIPO Treaties, the Hague System and the Marrakesh Treaty

11 February 2022
It has been two challenging years, yet there are many reasons to still have hope. We wish you a blessed Lunar New Year as we welcome the year of the Tiger. We wanted to highlight a few new developments in China. China has joined the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, submitting […]
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China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Inventive Step for Biological / Life Science Inventions (Part III)

30 April 2021
This is Part III of a three-part series summarizing the Examination Guidelines that were released by the CNIPA on January 15, 2021, one year to the date of Phase 1 of the US and China Economic and Trade Agreement. That agreement included specific provisions where China "shall permit pharmaceutical patent applicants to rely on supplemental […]
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Beijing IP Court Reverses CNIPA Decision and Upholds Ozempic® semaglutide patent in China as VALID based on Novo Nordisk’s Post Filing Data

27 June 2024
Recently, all eyes have been on China as the fundamental patent covering semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic® and Wegovy®, will expire on March 20, 2026. It goes without saying that generics are ramping up bigtime in China (and also around the world), preparing to manufacture and sell this blockbuster drug to one of the […]
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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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