A Beijing court dedicated to intellectual property right (IPR) cases has said it handled about 18,000 cases in 2018, up 19 percent year on year. Last year, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court also closed about 15,000 IPR-related cases, up 18 percent year on year. The court was set up in 2014 as China's first IPR court. Many foreign companies and multinationals have chosen to file lawsuits in the court t

China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released the Several Measures on Regulating Trademark Filing for Registration (Draft Open to Comments) on its website on February 12, inviting comments from the general public. The deadline for sending comments is March 14, 2019. In the context of streamlining of trademark registration procedure, contraction of registration pendency, reduction of registra

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 4, 2019, announced newly revised 35 U.S.C. § 101 guidance for use by USPTO personnel in evaluating subject matter eligibility. The USPTO also announced guidance on the application of 35 U.S.C. § 112 to computer-implemented inventions. Both guidance documents take effect Monday, January 7, 2019.

Strategic Plan sets priorities to strengthen the USPTO, drive innovation, and support economic growth WASHINGTON –The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published its2018-2022 Strategic Plan. The strategic plan sets out the USPTO’s mission-focused strategic goals: to optimize patent quality and timeliness; to optimize trademark quality and timeliness; and, to provide domestic and g

China's cabinet has released an amended regulation for the country's patent agencies to improve qualifications for practitioners and supervision on their services. The new regulation, an amendment to the previous one applied in 1991, will come into force on March 1, 2019, according to a decree by the State Council, signed by Premier Li Keqiang. To become qualified patent agents, individuals with the req

A way will be open for the Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and theChina National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) to assist each other to rapidly obtain high quality patents, improving the IP protection environments between the two countries and expanding the cooperation infrastructure between the two governments to protect trademarks. A patent collaborative search pilot (CSP) between the Rep