Celebrating Jennifer Che’s Promotion to Managing Director
– August 2023
CNIPA further clarifies how it counts “delays” when calculating Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in the new Draft Examination Guidelines and how it affects international applicants
– April 2023
Foreigners Beware: China Proposes Requiring IP Made Using Exported Chinese Genetic Resources to be Co-Owned by Chinese Collaborators
– March 2023
First Ever Successful Invalidation Challenge Due to Unauthorized Foreign Filing
– March 2023
Introducing the New USPTO Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program
– January 2023
FOLLOW UP: Amendments to the China Patent Examination Guidelines in 2022
– January 2023
BREAKING NEWS: New Pilot Program for Hong Kong Applicants to get Accelerated Patent Examination in the Chinese Patent Office Starting January 1, 2023
– January 2023
Chinese Courts Cares More About Patent Quality Now
– December 2022
Amendments to the China Patent Examination Guidelines in 2022
– December 2022
China Proposes New Examination Guidelines for Utility Models
– November 2022
China Announcing More Proposed Amendments to the Examination Guidelines in 2022
– November 2022
US vs CN: National Security Clearance Requirements
– November 2022
Compositions Limited by Use: A Cautionary Tale
– October 2022
How the Chinese Patent Office Rejected a Plate-Making Method Based on Food Safety Law
– October 2022
China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) Hands Down First Patent Linkage Appeal Decision
– September 2022
Eagle IP is Recognized in IP Stars 2022 in Patent Prosecution
– September 2022
Eagle IP is Recognized in IAM Patent 1000 as a Top Tier Firm
– July 2022
SPC Upholds $2M RMB Award in China’s First Patent Case on a Biological Deposit
– July 2022
China Hands Down First Batch of Patent Linkage “Paragraph IV” Litigation Results
– June 2022
What Kind of Damage Awards Can You Get in China?
– June 2022
China Releases Draft Implementation Guidelines for the Drug Administration Law
– June 2022
Congrats to Pauli Wong Promoted to Principal
– April 2022
How Smart is a Skilled Person in the Art ?
– April 2022
Patent Eligibility for Software in China
– April 2022
Talks given by our Vice President and Principal Jennifer Che at the Patent Workshops, HKUST Entrepreneurship Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology:
Patent 101: How to Read and Write a Patent: Best Practices for Scientists:
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Patent 101 for Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups:
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– March 2022
CHINA DIVISIONAL PATENT STRATEGY: Recent Judgment Narrows What Constitutes “Different Inventions” for Divisionals
– December 2021
CHINA: The Interplay Between Patent Law and Other Laws During Patent Prosecution
– October 2021
Proposed Examination Guidelines for the New Chinese Patent Law – Topic 1: Patent Term Adjustment
– October 2021
China Finally Clamps Down on Facial Recognition Technology
– August 2021
Do Invention and UM Patents Filed on the Same Day Rise and Fall Together?
– August 2021
What is the difference between an Invention Patent and a Utility Model Patent?
– August 2021
New Draft Patent Examination Guidelines are Available for Public Comment
– August 2021
China Top 10 Cases of 2020 – Winners’ Sun is truly a Winner: A Simple Selfie – Stick Utility Model Patent Crushes Infringers in China
– August 2021
Breaking: China Released New Implementation Measures for the New Patent Linkage System
– July 2021
China Top 10 Patent Re-Examination and Invalidation Cases of 2020 CNIPA Upholds Bayer’s Rivaroxaban Patent
– June 2021
CNIPA Releases Interim Measures for the Amended Chinese Patent Law Going Into Effect June 1, 2021
– May 2021
China Top 10 Cases of 2020 – CNIPA Upholds Second Medical Use Patent from University of Bordeaux
– May 2021
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Inventive Step for Biological / Life Science Inventions (Part III)
– April 2021
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Novelty and Inventive Step for Compounds (Part II)
– April 2021
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Post-Filing Supplemental Data (Part I)
– April 2021
China Adds Europe as a Searching Authority for PCT Applications
– February 2021
A Detailed Dive into China’s New Patent Term Extension Provisions
– December 2020
China Releases Details on Patent Term Extension, Deferred Examination and More in the Latest Draft Implementation Rules of the New Chinese Patent Law
– December 2020
China Releases Draft Examination Guidelines for the new Patent Law
– December 2020
How Will Civil Cases Work Under The Patent Linkage Provision In The New Chinese Patent Law?
– November 2020
New Guidelines! How to Apply China’s Criminal Law in IP Infringement
– November 2020
Narrow Claim Scope of a Chinese Utility Model Patent Fuels Design-Arounds by Failing to Curb Competing Products: Learning from a 2019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Case
– October 2020
Breaking News: China passes Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law
– October 2020
China Forges Ahead with Draft Measures for New Patent Linkage System
– October 2020
US Patent Fees will increase effective on October 2nd
– September 2020
How Far Can an Employer Reach to Own Employee-made “Service Inventions”?
– August 2020
Polymorph Patents in China: What is the Standard for Inventiveness for New Crystal Forms?
– July 2020
China Top 50 Case of 2019: How a Functional Feature is Construed Greatly Impacts Protection Scope
– July 2020
Breaking News: Newest Draft Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law Available for Public Comment
– July 2020
How the Chinese Court Criminally Sentences Employees that Steal Trade Secrets: 2019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Cases
– June 2020
2019 CHINA TOP 10 IP CASE: VALEO V. LUCAS, FUKE, & CHEN
– June 2020
The Latest on Post-Filing Data in China’s Patent Law
– April 2020
China Provides Specific Directions to Strengthen Patent / Technology Protection from 2020 to 2021
– April 2020
Diagnostic Claims in China
– January 2020
Hong Kong Launches New Original Grant Patent System
– December 2019
AI, Big Data, and Blockchain – CNIPA seeks public comment on draft patent examination guidelines
– November 2019
Major and Exciting Changes to China’s Patent Law on the Horizon
– February 2019
Happy Lunar New Year!
– January 2019
Finally a unified “Court of Appeal” for technology IP in China
– January 2019
Can several alternate groups in a Markush claim be arbitrarily deleted during invalidation?
– December 2018
No % homology? How to craft allowable claim scope around sequences to comply with China’s strict written description requirements
– November 2018
Can post-filing data showing unexpected technical effect be used to overcome inventive step if the specification contains no data but asserts the unexpected technical effect?
– November 2018
Is it Sufficient to Claim an Antibody only by Describing its Antigen?
– November 2018
Foreign companies transferring IP out of China: things to know
– October 2018
China IP Developments in Biotech/Pharma
– October 2018
After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 Extended for Another Year
– October 2018
USPTO harmonizes with US courts by adopting the court’s standard for interpreting claim scope
– October 2018
Prior Art Will Be Easier to Find due to creation of a new Prior Art Archive by Google, Cisco, MIT, and USPTO
– October 2018
How do foreign parties really fare in Chinese patent litigation?
– May/June 2018
Restructuring of SIPO Explained: To Facilitate Unified Law Enforcement and Avoid Separate Administration
– April 2018
SIPO to Continue Digital Advancement
– March 2018
Patent Protection: Are Patents Enforceable in China
– February 2018
Standard-Essential Patent in China Now Have Better Protection
– July 2017
Normal Consumer is Now the Standard for Determination of Infringement on Design Patents
– July 2017
Renting Products in China Now Constitutes Design Patent Infringement
– June 2017
New Guidelines for Patent Infringement Determination
– April 2017
Amendments to the Patent Examination Guidelines in China
– March 2017
