China National Intellectual Property Administration BulletinNo.481China has deposited the instrument of accession to theHague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Designs(1999 text) (hereinafter referred to as theHague Agreement) with the WIPO on February 5, 2022. It will come i

On April 26, 2022, "Chinese City Intellectual Property Index Report 2022" ("City Intellectual Property Index Report") was released in Beijing by the Research Group, which shows the top 10 intellectual property index in 2021 are: Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Wuh

On April 15, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court publicly sentenced the case of first instance in which the plaintiff Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. sued the defendant Wenzhou Haihe Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to confirm whether it fell into the scope of patent protection. According to the trial o

Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, instructed his cabinet to speed up the preparation of legislation promoting economic security at the first meeting of the “Council for the Promotion of Economic Security” in November 2021. The legislation is scheduled to be submitted to the 2022 Ordinary Diet

Pfizer, a US-based pharmaceutical giant, announced that it has signed a license agreement with the MPP for Paxlovid, an oral antiviral medicine for COVID-19. The MPP is a public health organization in Kenilworth, New Jersey, and is supported by the United Nations and governments including Japan. Pat