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  • April 04

    2023

    Officials to Receive Training for Improving IP Services

    Government officials responsible for intellectual property affairs across China will all be trained by 2025 to improve the quality of their services, the country's top IP regulator said on Friday. Since 2019, the China National Intellectual Property Administration has provided training for those working for IP-related departments 39,000 times, so as to ensure the professionalism of their IP-related services, according to Cao Hongying, an official from the administration. She shared the data at a news conference on Friday, revealing that such training will be covered in all IP-related administrators nationwide by 2025.

  • April 03

    2023

    Celebrating 20 Years of the Registered Community Design

    On 1 April 2023, we celebrate two decades of the Registered Community Design (RCD) and its role in fostering innovation and creativity in the European Union. To mark the occasion, the EUIPO will simultaneously unveil a new and user-friendly filing for design registration (new RCD e-filing), making it simpler than ever for users to protect their intellectual property. History On 1 April 2003, the EUIPO opened its doors to the registration of the new registered Community designs. The RCD has proved to be a game changer for businesses across the European Union. Previously, businesses had to go through a cumbersome and expensive process for registering their designs in each EU country separately, but with the RCD, businesses were able to protect their designs across all EU Member States with a single filing.

  • March 31

    2023

    Innovation Push Leads to EPO Patent Growth

    More than 19,000 applications filed by Chinese inventors raise nation's profile in global rankings China is likely to soon overtake Germany and Japan as the second-largest country filing patents with the European Patent Office, as Chinese companies continuously grow in innovation prowess and embrace the international intellectual property system for IP protection, a senior expert from the EPO said. The forecast came as the EPO's latest data show that Chinese companies and inventors filed 19,041 patent applications at the office in 2022, trailing after Japan with 21,576 applications, Germany with 24,684 and the United States with 48,088.

  • March 29

    2023

    China Speeds up ICH Branding, Inheritance and Innovation

    With the theme of "Adhere to integrity and innovation, and polish the brand of intangible cultural heritage (ICH)", the 2023 Intangible Cultural Heritage Brand Summit kicked off in Guangzhou, China on March 23, which has been upgraded to a large-scale national event. Nearly 150 ICH brands attended the summit to explore new methods on branding and new paths on ICH inheritance and development, and achieve the new goal of high-quality development of traditional crafts.

  • March 28

    2023

    Patent Applications from Chinese Firms Lodged with European Patent Office Grows by 15.1%: Report

    Chinese companies and inventors filed 19,041 patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2022, an increase of 15.1 percent compared to 2021. China is now among the top five countries with the most patent applications for 2022 accounting for a 9.8 percent of the share of total applications at the EPO, according to EPO's Patent Index 2022 released on Tuesday. The patent filings from China have more than doubled over the past five years and are nearly five times the level of a decade ago. Most inventions for which Chinese companies filed patent applications in 2022 were surrounding digital communication and computer technology. The technical field with the steepest growth, however, was semiconductors, recording an increase of 53.6%, moving China into second position at the EPO after the US in the sector. Patent filings from Chinese firms in the field of electrical machinery, apparatus, and energy saw a sharp increase of 47.4 percent compared with the previous year, exceeding the growth from Japan and the US.

  • March 24

    2023

    Court to Decide How Specific a Patent Disclosure Must Be

    Two pharmaceutical giants head to the Supreme Court in a dispute over a patent covering cholesterol-lowering antibodies on March 20. In Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, the justices will consider whether Amgen’s patent is too broad to be valid under federal patent rules. Amgen has patents on monoclonal antibodies that lower LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol. The antibodies work by binding to a particular protein in the body (PCSK9), which then blocks that protein from destroying receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream. Amgen and other companies already have patents covering particular antibodies defined by their amino acid sequences. Those narrow patents are not in dispute here. Instead, this case involves a broader patent Amgen obtained, which covers any monoclonal antibody that binds to particular sweet spots on the PCSK9 protein and blocks that protein from binding to LDL receptors. In other words, the patent covers a genus defined by how the antibodies work. The patent gives details for 26 example antibodies and specifies how to run further processes to identify others from a pool of potentially thousands or even millions of candidates. However, the patent also goes far beyond those 26 examples, covering any antibody within the broad genus.

  • March 22

    2023

    UK: Intellectual Property Office Welcomes New IP Minister

    The Intellectual Property Office welcomes the announcement that Viscount Camrose has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, with responsibility for intellectual property. Adam Williams, Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the Intellectual Property Office, said: I am delighted to welcome Viscount Camrose as the new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the newly-formed Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, with responsibility for intellectual property.

  • March 16

    2023

    Copyright Means You May Need Permission to Post Photos of Your Own Home Online

    One of the life’s certainties is that copyright maximalism will continue to encourage absurd rulings by complaisant courts. Here’s a rather spectacular case from Germany. It involves a “photo wallpaper”. For those of you who – like me – aren’t quite sure what that means, it is the name given to wallpapers that are essentially huge, blown-up images based on photographs. In this particular instance, photo wallpaper was used to decorate a holiday flat. As is normal for such situations, the owner took pictures to entice people to rent the property, including images of the room with the photo wallpaper, which was clearly visible in the online marketing materials. Here’s how things went as a result, reported by Pinsent Masons: The flat owner had purchased the wallpaper in 2013 at a price of €13.50. In 2020, the flat owner received a cease-and-desist letter: the photographer, who held the copyright to the tulip photos used for the wallpaper, considered that his rights to the images had been infringed and demanded the flat owner to stop reproducing the photographs on the internet. The owner of the holiday flat refused to sign the cease-and-desist declaration and the case went to court.

  • March 15

    2023

    Government Report: Strengthen IPR Protection, Inspire Innovation Impetus

    The past five years have been truly momentous and remarkable for China. China's economic development has moved up a notch. China's GDP amounted to 121 trillion yuan, registering an annual growth rate of 5.2% during the period. China has achieved a total victory in poverty eradication on schedule. Close to 100 million underdeveloped rural residents and a total of 832 impoverished counties were lifted out of poverty. Fruitful gains have been made in sci-tech innovation. The contribution of scientific and technological progress to economic growth exceeded 60%, and the capacity of innovation-driven development was improved constantly. China's economic structure was further optimized. The average annual added value of high-tech manufacturing and equipment manufacturing increased by 10.6% and 7.9% respectively.

  • March 13

    2023

    EUIPO Released an Updated Study Analysing Green EU Trade Mark Filings

    Climate change and other environmental issues are currently big concerns in the European Union and beyond. These issues are becoming increasingly important in politics, in business and in public debate. Intellectual Property (IP) plays an important role in the accomplishment of European Green Deal objectives that aim to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released an update of an earlier study that analyses green EU trade marks (EUTMs). The study finds that the share of green EUTMs in overall EUTM filings increased to 12%.
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