Recently, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) have jointly decided to extend the CNIPA-INPI Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program starting from January 1, 2025. The established Guideline of CNIPA-INPI PPH R

According to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Remittance of Fees under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) signed between the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), CNIPA collects PCT international phase application

According to CNIPA, as of November in 2023, the share of applications for valid invention patents by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) reached 73.5%, up 2.5 percent points from the year before. Among the valid invention patents of Chinas SMEs in 2024, the proportion of independent research a

On 18 December 2024, the UPC’s Munich LD has granted Huawei a seven-country injunction against Netgear over infringement of their European patent no. EP3611989 (“Method and apparatus for transmitting wireless local area network information”), a WiFi 6 SEP. The injunction covers the seven UPC member

Data shows that in 2023, there were 15,603 contracts (a total of 32,938 in the five years from 2019 to 2023) and 36,794 patents (a total of 82,738 in the five years from 2019 to 2023), of which invention, utility model and design patents account for 45.3%, 44.7% and 10.0% respectively. On average, e