Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Group, gave an in-house seminar titled “IP Due Diligence: The Key to Realistic Valuation of Technology in Transactions” at The Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies.
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New Remedy in China for Fixing "Errors" in a Patent Application: Incorporation by Reference
21 March 2024Background As mentioned in our earlier article, the Implementation Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law (“Regulations”, similar to the CFR in the US) were approved in November, and the CNIPA finally made public the full text of the Regulations just before the arrival of the New Year. At the same time, the CNIPA also released the new […]
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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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New Fee Standards Released for Chinese Patent Applications
6 September 2024Recently, the Chinese government issued four official notices introducing new fee standards and deduction rules for Chinese patent applications.1 These updates address international applications (PCT applications) and the Chinese national phase applications thereof, as well as patent term adjustment/extension (PTA/PTE). Please find our summary below: PCT application fee deduction rules Application fee & extra […]
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China Announcing More Proposed Amendments to the Examination Guidelines in 2022
17 November 2022It’s been a year and a half since the new Chinese Patent Law came into effect (1 June 2021). Although various versions of draft Examination Guidelines have been released, thus far no official finalized versions have been confirmed. On October 31, 2022, yet another new list of proposed amendments was published1, this time consolidating the […]
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