【The main takeaway of the trial】The inventive step of a patent technical solution can derive from "solution to problems" or "raising of questions"; when the technical progress have difficulty in finding problems, if not consider whether the "raising of questions " is obvious or not for those of ordi

In the first half of the year, all intellectual property management departments in China steadily promoted the administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes, focusing on key areas online and offline, and obtained good achievement and efficiency. Cases of administrative adjudication of

In the first half of the year，339, 000 cases of invention patent were authorized in China. As of the end of June 2021, there were 3, 324,000 cases of valid invention patent, a year-on-year increase of 23.0%, and 33, 300 cases of accepted PCT international patent application, a year-on-year increase

—(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Civil Judgment No. 699If the party applied for invention patents and utility model patents of the same technical solution on the same day, the invention patent application was not authorized due to the lack of novelty or being determined not to involve inventive

In March this year, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court made second-instance judgments in two cases of infringement of utility model patent rights, explicitly indicating that the accused infringers should bear civil liability for stopping the infringement and compensating f