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Global Innovation Index Report:China rises to No.12
2025-05-05On September 20, Beijing time, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) issued the 2021Global Innovation Index Report (hereinafter referred to as Report), which shows that China ranks 12th, up 2 places from 2020. The Report spoke highly of China’s progress in the innovation, and emphasize -
The influence of the modified claims in the parallel invalidation procedure
2025-05-05—(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Administrative Judgment No. 93【The main takeaway of the trial】In the examination procedure for multiple invalidation requests of the same patent right, if the patentee modifies a claim in one of the procedures and the modification is accepted by the CNIPA, for th -
Determination of Commonsense Evidence —(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Administrative Judgment No. 35
2025-05-05【The main takeaway of the trial】Commonsense evidence usually refers to references that record basictechnical knowledge in the field such as technical dictionaries, technical manuals and textbooks; it needs to specifically determine whether references other than technical dictionaries, technical manu -
The consideration of "raising of questions" for the judgment of inventive step —(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Administrative Judgment No. 183
2025-05-05【The main takeaway of the trial】The inventive step of a patent technical solution can derive from "solution to problems" or "raising ofquestions"; when the technical progress have difficulty in finding problems, if not consider whether the"raising of questions " is obvious or not for those of ordina -
13,800 cases of administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes were filed in the first half year in China
2025-05-05In the first half of the year, all intellectual property management departments in China steadily promoted the administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes, focusing on key areas online and offline, and obtained good achievement and efficiency. Cases of administrative adjudication of