In public oral proceedings today, in combined cases J 8/20 and J 9/20, the Legal Board of Appeal of the EPO confirmed that under the European Patent Convention (EPC) an inventor designated in a patent application must be a human being. The board dismissed the applicants appeal. The written decision

Recently, with the official launch of the online application function of the trademark online service system "Madrid Trademark International Abandonment Business", Chinese applicants can apply online for all 10 businesses of Madrid trademark international registration such as application, renewal, t

Recently, IFI Claims, a well-known intellectual property research institution in the United States, has released the "Top 50 Patent Licensing Rankings in the United States". There are 4 companies in mainland China and 1 company in Taiwan, which are respectively Huawei, BOE, Advanced Innovation (a su

On January 12, the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China (SCIO) held a press conference on the statistical data of intellectual property-related work in 2021. The number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 population reached 7.5, an increase of 1.2 over the previo

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