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"2021 Investigation Report on Intellectual Property Disputes of Chinese Enterprises in the US" issued by China Intellectual Property Society
2025-05-06China Intellectual Property Society released the 2021 Investigation Report on Intellectual Property Disputes of Chinese Enterprises in the US, which investigated litigations relating to the patent, trademark, trade secret and "337 Investigation" cases involving Chinese companies in the United States -
2021 Annual Report of CNIPA
2025-05-06In 2021, the number of invention patent applications was 1.586 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%; that of the granted invention patents was 696,000, a year-on-year increase of 31.3%.In 2021, the number of utility model patent application was 2.852 million, a year-on-year decrease of 2.5%; tha -
Several Provisions of Supreme People’s Court on Jurisdiction of Intellectual Property Civil and Administrative Cases for the First Instance
2025-05-06(Adopted at the 1858th meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme Peoples Court on December 27, 2021,and Effective as of May 1, 2022) With a view to improve the jurisdiction system for intellectual property cases and reasonably position the judicial functions of the four levels of courts, thes -
New changes for amended Anti-Monopoly Law
2025-05-06The 35th meeting of the 13th National Peoples Congress Standing Committee voted on June 24 to revise the Anti-Monopoly Law, which will come into force on August 1, 2022. This is the first revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law since its implementation in 2008, for the purpose of keeping a fair competitio -
Online application rate for trademarks and patents in China both over 99%
2025-05-06As of the end of May this year, the online application rates for trademarks and patents have respectively reached 99.45% and 99.43%.The whole process period of trademark registration in general cases has been shortened to 7 months. The average review and trial periods for trademark opposition and re