No More Hindsight Bias: China’s Supreme People's Court Reins in Patent Inventiveness Assessments
2026年6月25日For foreign applicants navigating patent litigation or invalidation in China, a common frustration is hindsight bias. Too often, CNIPA or lower courts strip down a patent into isolated technical features, find those features across disparate prior art references, and declare the invention to be "obvious". To counter such hindsight reasoning, the core criterion has always […]
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IP Update: China’s Supreme People’s Court Issues First Public Decision Defining China’s Inventorship Standard
2026年6月1日In theory China's inventorship standard is similar to others around the world. An inventor is anyone who "makes creative contributions to the substantive features" of an invention. But what does this mean, and how does one apply this standard? Up to this point, this issue hasn't really been litigated much in China (at least according […]
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