Recently, CNIPA made approval decisions on 15 patents for multiple requests of pharmaceutical Patent Term Extension (PTE), which were concluded as "disagree with compensation". This decision involved several drugs, and the approval opinion pointed out that the patent term compensation requests for t

1. PatentsFrom January to October 2024, the number of authorized invention patents in China is 889,000, the number of authorized utility model patents is 1.656 million, and the number of authorized industrial design patents is 513,000.As of the end of October 2024, the number of valid invention pate

China ranked first globally in the number of invention patent applications for patents, trademarks, and industrial designs, said World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024, which was released by World Intellectual Property Organization.According to the report, global patent applications in 2023 rea

On November 6th, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court held a press conference and officially released the White Paper on the Judicial Work of Beijing Intellectual Property Court in the Past Ten Years (2014-2024) (Chinese and English versions).The white paper includes court profile and statistics

According to the Administrative Trial Report of the Supreme People’s Court of China, from 2016 to September 2024, a total of 2.421 million first-instance administrative cases have been heard and 1.841 million administrative non-litigation enforcement cases have been handled.The report shows that the