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  • October 31

    2022

    China to Release Revised Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law and the Guidelines for Patent Examination by end of December 2022

    On October 28, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) published the “In-depth implementation of the ‘Opinions on Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection’ promotion plan” that sets target dates for the release of various regulations and guidelines to clarify how China’s 2021 amendments to the patent law will be implemented. Specifically, CNIPA is targeting the revision of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law and the Guidelines for Patent Examination by end of December 2022 “and continue to advance,” which implies further amendments to same. These revisions may be of particular interest to pharmaceutical patentees as the revisions should explain in detail how patent term extension and patent term adjustment will work.

  • October 21

    2022

    The 11th, China Moving up in GII Ranking

    China ranks 11th, having moved up gently but without pause in the past decade! The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), on September 29, released its Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022, underlining that China has been consolidating its position as a global innovation powerhouse and contributing tremendously in supporting global R & D investment. "This year's GII finds that innovation is at a crossroads as we emerge from the pandemic," WIPO Director General Daren Tang says. What China has achieved exhibits the effects generated by a country that treats innovation as a growth engine and gives tremendous attention to it. China has been building its innovation ecosystem in a very comprehensive way, which is an important factor ensuring its success.

  • October 19

    2022

    Shen Talks With EAPO President Online on Development and Cooperation

    Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), held a video conference with Grigory Ivliev, President of Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), on the two organizations’ latest developments and future cooperation, on September 16. Shen congratulated Ivliev on his appointment as the EAPO President. He recalled the two organizations’ established cooperative ties, which have delivered pragmatic results in IP laws and policies, talks between examiners,

  • October 10

    2022

    Decade of Innovation sees Invention Patents Soar

    The rapid growth of patents and trademarks in the past decade demonstrates the vitality of the national innovation, Hu Wenhui, deputy head of the National Intellectual Property Administration told a news conference on last Sunday. From 2012 to September, the administration granted 3.95 million patents, with an average annual increase each year of 13.8 percent, bringing the number of valid patents to over 4.08 million. During the same period, more than 35.56 million trademarks were registered, an increase of an average of 25.5 percent per year, he said. "Those figures mean that IPR has developed quickly in the past 10 years, playing an important role in stimulating creativity and energizing innovators," he added.

  • September 30

    2022

    China on Threshold of Top 10 most Innovative Economies: WIPO

    China has moved up to 11th place in the 2022 Global Innovation Index (GII) and firmly remains the only middle-income economy in the top 30, according to the latest ranking published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Thursday. The GII, an annual ranking of the world's economies on innovation capacity and output, shows that Switzerland remains the world leader in innovation for the 12th consecutive year, followed by the US, Sweden, the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands. China, having ranked 14th and 12th in 2020 and 2021, respectively, steadily rose to the 11th place in 2022, and is now on the doorstep of the world's top 10 most innovative economies.

  • September 14

    2022

    Concrete Measures Uplifts IP Commercialization to New Heights

    "Efficient transactions of IPRs fuel orderly circulation of innovative resources and elements as well as optimization of configurations while speeding up the release of innovative energy," Heng Fuguang, spokesperson and deputy director general of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) announced at a press conference on IPR commercialization and use in Beijing on August 24, "We are obviously seeing more dynamic IPR transactional activities on top of faster release of innovative energy. Financial packages serving IPRs inject capital to market players, lending robust support to their monetary needs. Benefits generated by IPR use also booms, exerting a more pronounced role in assisting quality development of economy." Principals from the CNIPA's promotion of IPR use department, science/technology and information technology department of the Ministry of Education (MOE), science/technology department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, laws and regulations department of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) attended the press conference revealing the latest developments and achievements of IPR commercialization and use.

  • September 7

    2022

    CNIPA's Newly-Vested Adjudication Power Over Patent Infringement Disputes Presents Welcomed Options to Patentees

    "The CNIPA's (China National Intellectual Property Administration) first batch of patent enforcement rulings shows it's more than capable of handling technical cases,"  the UK-based Managing IP magazine leads with this sentence in an article of its August edition. The article highlights some of the impacts on the IP community made by this new mission of the CNIPA. One of them is "The latest rulings also show the CNIPA won't shy away from industry issues. For example, the office settled a longstanding problem in the drug patent litigation space." Since the CNIPA started hearing patent disputes with a significant nationwide effect on June 1, 2021, it has concluded the first batch of patent infringement cases within four months (not inclusive of staying time). "These rulings epitomize the efficiency of patent administrative protection, presenting fresh options for patentees and the general public to enforce their  lawful right and stop infringement in a timely fashion," says Zhang Zhicheng, director general of CNIPA's IP protection department.

  • August 24

    2022

    Policy Aims to Fuel Copyright Trade, Export of Traditional Chinese Culture

    As of 2025, several platforms dedicated to cultural trade are operational; a slew of digital cultural platforms and industry leaders with global presence are formed; Chinese cultural products and services are more competitive; cultural brands are bigger names internationally; cultural trade has a stronger bearing on export of Chinese culture and greater contribution to the building of a cultural powerhouse country. These are some of the visions and objectives listed in the recently-enacted Opinions on Promoting Quality Development of External Cultural Trade, a joint policy of 27 agencies including Ministry of Commerce, Central Publicity Ministry and China National Intellectual Property Administration. Twenty-eight specific tasks and measures including expansion of digital cultural trade, export of publications and copyright trade and enhancement of IP protection are scattered in the Opinions' seven sections including deepening reform and open-up in the culture sector, inspiring innovation to generate new momentum and stimulating the energy of market players.

  • August 1

    2022

    IP PEOPLE: 2021 White Paper on China's IP Protection Status Released

    The State Council Information Office released the 2021 White Paper on China's China made significant progress in IP protection system construction, approval and registration, cultural development, and international cooperation.   China's achievement in IP protection in 2021 was widely recognized by innovators from various countries and the international community. Social satisfaction with IP protection rose to 80.61 points (100 point scale), an increase of 0.56 points over last year.

  • Judy 26

    2022

    Annual Report of CNIPA (2021): 55.0% Grant Rate of Invention Patents

    China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued the 2021 annual report in June, 2022. Below are main information and statistical data relating to patents and trademarks. In 2021, a total of 1,586,000, invention patent applications were filed in China, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%. Among them, 1,428,000 were domestic invention patent applications, accounting for 90.0% of the total, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%; 158,000 were foreign invention patent applications accounting for 10.0% of the total number, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%.
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