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The main statistics of the first half year of 2021 issued by CNIPA
2025-05-05In the first half of the year,339, 000 cases of invention patent were authorized in China. As of the end of June 2021, there were 3, 324,000 cases of valid invention patent, a year-on-year increase of 23.0%, and 33, 300 cases of accepted PCT international patent application, a year-on-year increase -
Protection of utility model patent rights applied in terms of the same technical solution on the same day after the rejection of an invention patent application
2025-05-05—(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Civil Judgment No. 699If the party applied for invention patents and utility model patents of the same technical solution on the same day, theinvention patent application was not authorized due to the lack of novelty or being determined not to involve inventive s -
The Supreme Court explicitly promised that sales infringement should also be responsible for compensation
2025-05-05In March this year, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court made second-instance judgments in two cases of infringement of utility model patent rights, explicitly indicating that the accused infringers should bear civil liability for stopping the infringement and compensating f -
Case No. 18338886 on invalidation of color combination trademarks
2025-05-05Color combination trademarks have been filed for invalidation by many subjects due to issues of distinctiveness, which has a significant impact in the industry. Analysis and explanations of the invalidation case No. 18338886 are as follows.Disputed trademark: (1) Claims of the appl -
Interpretation of Policy of Measures for the Implementation of Early Resolution Mechanism for Drug Patent Disputes (Trial)
2025-05-051. What is the background of drafting theMeasures for the Implementation of the Early Resolution Mechanism for Drug Patent Disputes (Trial)?The early resolution mechanism for drug patent disputes refers to the system that links the approval procedures for the marketing of related drugs with the reso