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【Global News】USPTO launches new public webpage to enhance accessibility to patent term extension information
2025-05-06The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new public webpage that provides information on applications for patent term extension (PTE) that have been filed within the past five years and patent terms extended under 35 U.S.C. § 156. The information includes the application -
【Global News】The Budapest Treaty in Malaysia and New Directives
2025-05-06On 31 March 2022, Malaysia deposited the instrument of ratification at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Headquarters in Geneva and officially acceded to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. This -
【Global News】Crystallising European practice on the patentability of polymorphs
2025-05-06Taking a new drug candidate from the initial discovery phase, through clinical trials, and then to market can be a lengthy process. In some cases, the maximum 20-year term of a patent for a new chemical entity (NCE) may not be enough to provide innovators with adequate protection at the later stages -
【GE CHENG News】Global Innovation Index 2022: China ranks 11 with steady and consecutive improvement for 10 years
2025-05-06On September 29, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the Global Innovation Index 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), and China ranks 11th, up one place from 2021. Since 2013, Chinas global innovation index ranking has steadily risen for 10 years, ranking first am -
【GE CHENG News】Avanci signs patent license agreements with Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other car companies, more than 80 auto brands covered in the patent pool
2025-05-06"It is recently announced that Avanci has signed a patent license agreement with Japans Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Stellantis, these car brands, including their covered brands of connected vehicles, will have access to 2G, 3G and 4G basic patent licenses under the Avanci Automotive Patent Program. T