Brexit means that the EUIPO trade mark or design registration no longer covers the UK.This does not apply to patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO). All trade mark and design rights granted by the EUIPO by 31st December 2020 now have automatic clones giving protection in the UK. No acti

【The main takeaway of the trial】Commonsense evidence usually refers to references that record basic technical knowledge in the field such as technical dictionaries, technical manuals and textbooks; it needs to specifically determine whether references other than technical dictionaries, technical man

【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