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【Global News】Is the cepharanthine patent anti-coronavirus or anti-pangolin coronavirus? —Notes on new test models in patent applications
2025-05-06On May 10, 2022, the CNIPA approved and disclosed a patent case: "Pangolin coronavirus xCOV and its application and the application of drugs against coronavirus infection" (Publication No. CN113046327B, hereinafter referred to as Patent No. 327), there is only one approved claim: the use of cepharan -
【Global News】Iraq: All Aboard the PCT Train: Applications Started Designating IQ
2025-05-06As of May 1, 2022, PCT applications started designating Iraq (IQ) for national entry phase. To date, Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (COSQC) has not issued new guidance on PCT-based filings and prosecution.Under the Convention filings, applications are required to includ -
【Global News】Introduction to the EPO's Handling Process for Flaws of Sequence Listings Related to the WIPO ST.26 Standard (Pt.2)
2025-05-06PCT international applications:Article 4 of the Measures for Submitting Sequence Listings stipulates that if a PCT international application discloses a nucleotide or amino acid sequence, when the EPO acts as the International Searching Authority (ISA) and the Supplementary International Searching A -
【Global News】Introduction to the EPO's Handling Process for Flaws of Sequence Listings Related to the WIPO ST.26 Standard (Pt.1)
2025-05-06In order to improve the accuracy and quality of sequence listings, make sequence listings easier to disseminate, facilitate retrieval, and facilitate data exchange between different databases and import into computer databases, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established a Standa -
【Global News】Hague System: Morocco joins the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement
2025-05-06Morocco – the last Hague System contracting party, list of Hague System contracting parties outside of the European Union and the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) bound only by the 1960 Hague Act – has acceded to the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement. The Government of Morocco