Beijing courts have tackled more than 600,000 intellectual property disputes over the past three decades, the majority of which were resolved in the past 10 years, the city's High People's Court said. According to the White Paper on Beijing Courts' specialized Trial of Intellectual Property Cases for Three Decades, which was issued by the high court on Wednesday, courts citywide dealt with 624,577 such

Recently, the main statistics on intellectual property in Jan.-Oct. 2023 was published by the CNIPA. As compared to the same period of 2022: I. Patent By the end of October 2023, China saw an amount of valid invention patents up to 4,870,000. There were a total of 3,897,000 domestic valid invention patents (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), 11,923,000 valid utility model patents, and 3,159,000 valid

The Implementing Regulations of the China Patent Law (Draft Amendment) was approved at an executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang of the State Council on November 3, 2023. The meeting stressed the need to thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee's decision and deployment on strengthening intellectual property protection, strictly implement the Implementing Regulations of the China Patent Law, fur

The Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents has entered into force since November 7, 2023 On March 8, 2023, China accessed to the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention"). The Convention has entered into force since November 7, 2023. I. Brief Introduction The Convention

Nationals and residents of the People's Republic of China will continue to have the option to select the EPO as their International Searching Authority (ISA) for international patent applications filed in English under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) until 30 November 2026. This follows the success of the pilot scheme first started in December 2020, which is being extended for a further three years as mutuall

High-level judicial officials in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei agree to collaborate Courts in North China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will cooperate further to better protect intellectual property rights, thereby helping promote the coordinated development of the region, according to local judicial authorities. The high people's courts in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province signed a framework agreement