From November 11 to 22, the Diplomatic Conference on Design Law, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The conference successfully approved the Riyadh Design Law Treaty. A Chinese government delegation, comprising representatives from the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), China's Permanent Mission to Geneva, an

Chinese and U.S. officials have met in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, to discuss cooperation in tackling online sales of infringing goods, China's top market regulator said on Monday. The conference, jointly organized by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), brought together over 200 representatives from law enforcement and judici

Beijing Intellectual Property Court has handled more than 200,000 cases since its establishment, endeavoring to promote technological innovation, improve industrial governance and maintain the market fairness, according to a report. The report issued by the court on Wednesday showed that between Nov 6, 2014, the establishment of the court, and October this year, it handled 201,984 IP lawsuits, of which over 130,00

China has increased efforts to help enterprises deal with intellectual property disputes overseas, with guidance in handling 166 such cases during the first half of this year, an official from the country's top IP regulator said on Wednesday. Song Beibei, deputy head of the China National Intellectual Property Administration's Intellectual Property Protection Department, told a news conference that it has

The number of valid domestic patents in China reached 4.425 million in June, the China National Intellectual Property Administration said at a news conference on Monday. The number of high-value invention patents were 12.9 per 10,000 residents, achieving the national target set out in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) ahead of schedule. The numbers not only signify the progress in protecting intellectual pr

China will comprehensively promote the efficient operation of the patent open license system, according to a notice issued by China's National Intellectual Property Administration. Modes and channels of patent transformation and application will also be broadened, according to the notice. The notice calls for collaborative efforts to operate the patent open license system, by guiding patentees to standardiz