· There previously used to be delays in the notification of documents to applicants due to their failure to inform the office ofaddress changes· A provision was added to the IP Code in order to find a solution to the issue of serving documents to rights holders· All documents that could not be serve

The Legal Board of Appeal of the EPO has issued in writing its decision in case J 8/20, which confirmed that under the European Patent Convention (EPC) an inventor designated in a patent application must be a human being. The decision, announced after hearing the appellant in public oral proceedings

In recent years, developments in digitalization have started to make crucial impacts on many fields, including intellectual property, from creation to monetization and enforcement levels. Brand owners and brand protection professionals are heeding updates in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockcha

Recently, the intelligent system for patent search and analysis (hereinafter referred to as the "new system") was officially put into operation, as an important part of the intelligent upgrading project of the CNIPA patent examination and research system, it aims at providing better patent search, p

For the purpose of improving the quality and efficiency of filing and optimizing the business environment, Beijing Intellectual Property Court, under the guidance of the Beijing Higher Peoples Court, will implement online filing for administrative cases of patent and trademark authorization and conf