The common way to accelerate proceedings before EPO is through PPH, as EPO has many PPH agreements in force with other patent offices worldwide (see here).An easy alternative to PPH is the PACE program. Under the PACE program, a PACE request may be filed only once during each stage of the procedure,

In accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Article 49 of China’s Trademark Law and Article 65 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law, when a registered trademark becomes the common name of its approved products，any unit or individual may file an application to the Tr

On March 23th, the National Copyright Administration released the National Copyright Registration Bulletin in 2021, including the copyright registration of works, computer software copyright registration, and copyright pledge registration in 2021. The data shows that in 2021, the total number of cop

The Supreme Peoples Court of China released the latest judicial interpretation that in accordance with the revisedAnti-Unfair Competition Law, making detailed provisions on counterfeiting and confusion, false promotion, and online unfair competition.The Interpretation of the Supreme Peoples Court on

Case IntroductionThe patent involved in the case is ‘a pump dispenser with inclined jet nozzle’, with the filing date of October 25, 2012 and priority date of October 25, 2011, which is applied by company A. After substantive examination, the original examination department of CNIPA made a rejection