Dr. Jacqueline Lui, President of Eagle IP Group, gave a talk titled “進軍國際市場的知識產權策略” to the Hunan IP official delegates include Hunan government IP officials and leaders of IP trading and service industry.

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Let’s start with a riddle: can you name a person who has read every book, every journal, conducted every known experiment, and is knowledgeable about every single patent prosecution / litigation in the world? The answer? A “skilled person in the art.” This person is also known as a “person having ordinary skill in the […]

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