Celebrating Jennifer Che’s Promotion to Managing Director
– 2023年8月
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
– 2023年4月
Foreigners Beware: China Proposes Requiring IP Made Using Exported Chinese Genetic Resources to be Co-Owned by Chinese Collaborators
– 2023年3月
First Ever Successful Invalidation Challenge Due to Unauthorized Foreign Filing
What does an invention “completed” in China mean?
– 2023年3月
Introducing the New USPTO Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program
– 2023年1月
FOLLOW UP: Amendments to the China Patent Examination Guidelines in 2022
Part 1: New rules for designs in view of China signing onto the Hague Agreement
– 2023年1月
BREAKING NEWS: New Pilot Program for Hong Kong Applicants to get Accelerated Patent Examination in the Chinese Patent Office Starting January 1, 2023
– 2023年1月
Chinese Courts Cares More About Patent Quality Now
(A Doctrine of Equivalents Story)
– 2022年12月
Amendments to the China Patent Examination Guidelines in 2022
Part 1: New rules for designs in view of China signing onto the Hague Agreement
– 2022年12月
China Proposes New Examination Guidelines for Utility Models
– 2022年11月
China Announcing More Proposed Amendments to the Examination Guidelines in 2022
– 2022年11月
US vs CN: National Security Clearance Requirements
– 2022年11月
Compositions Limited by Use: A Cautionary Tale
– 2022年10月
How the Chinese Patent Office Rejected a Plate-Making Method Based on Food Safety Law
– 2022年10月
China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) Hands Down First Patent Linkage Appeal Decision
– 2022年9月
Eagle IP is Recognized in IP Stars 2022 in Patent Prosecution
– 2022年9月
Eagle IP is Recognized in IAM Patent 1000 as a Top Tier Firm
– 2022年7月
SPC Upholds $2M RMB Award in China’s First Patent Case on a Biological Deposit
– 2022年7月
China Hands Down First Batch of Patent Linkage “Paragraph IV” Litigation Results
– 2022年6月
What Kind of Damage Awards Can You Get in China?
– 2022年6月
China Releases Draft Implementation Guidelines for the Drug Administration Law
– 2022年6月
Congrats to Pauli Wong Promoted to Principal
– 2022年4月
How Smart is a Skilled Person in the Art ?
– 2022年4月
Patent Eligibility for Software in China
– 2022年4月
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:
VIDEO
Patent 101 for Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups:
VIDEO
– 2022年3月
CHINA DIVISIONAL PATENT STRATEGY: Recent Judgment Narrows What Constitutes “Different Inventions” for Divisionals
– 2021年12月
CHINA: The Interplay Between Patent Law and Other Laws During Patent Prosecution
– 2021年10月
Proposed Examination Guidelines for the New Chinese Patent Law – Topic 1: Patent Term Adjustment
– 2021年10月
China Finally Clamps Down on Facial Recognition Technology
– 2021年8月
Do Invention and UM Patents Filed on the Same Day Rise and Fall Together?
– 2021年8月
What is the difference between an Invention Patent and a Utility Model Patent?
– 2021年8月
New Draft Patent Examination Guidelines are Available for Public Comment
– 2021年8月
China Top 10 Cases of 2020 – Winners’ Sun is truly a Winner: A Simple Selfie – Stick Utility Model Patent Crushes Infringers in China
– 2021年8月
China Top 10 Patent Re-Examination and Invalidation Cases of 2020 CNIPA Upholds Bayer’s Rivaroxaban Patent
– 2021年6月
CNIPA Releases Interim Measures for the Amended Chinese Patent Law Going Into Effect June 1, 2021
– 2021年5月
China Top 10 Cases of 2020 – CNIPA Upholds Second Medical Use Patent from University of Bordeaux
– 2021年5月
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Inventive Step for Biological / Life Science Inventions (Part III)
– 2021年4月
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Novelty and Inventive Step for Compounds (Part II)
– 2021年4月
China’s Newest Examination Guidelines: Post-Filing Supplemental Data (Part I)
– 2021年4月
China Adds Europe as a Searching Authority for PCT Applications
– 2021年2月
A Detailed Dive into China’s New Patent Term Extension Provisions
– 2020年12月
China Releases Details on Patent Term Extension, Deferred Examination and More in the Latest Draft Implementation Rules of the New Chinese Patent Law
– 2020年12月
China Releases Draft Examination Guidelines for the new Patent Law
– 2020年12月
How Will Civil Cases Work Under The Patent Linkage Provision In The New Chinese Patent Law?
– 2020年11月
New Guidelines! How to Apply China’s Criminal Law in IP Infringement
– 2020年11月
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
– 2020年10月
Breaking News: China passes Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law
– 2020年10月
China Forges Ahead with Draft Measures for New Patent Linkage System
– 2020年10月
US Patent Fees will increase effective on October 2nd
– 2020年9月
How Far Can an Employer Reach to Own Employee-made “Service Inventions”?
– 2020年8月
Polymorph Patents in China: What is the Standard for Inventiveness for New Crystal Forms?
– 2020年7月
China Top 50 Case of 2019: How a Functional Feature is Construed Greatly Impacts Protection Scope
– 2020年7月
Breaking News: Newest Draft Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law Available for Public Comment
– 2020年7月
How the Chinese Court Criminally Sentences Employees that Steal Trade Secrets: 2019 China’s Top 50 Representative IP Cases
– 2020年6月
2019 CHINA TOP 10 IP CASE: VALEO V. LUCAS, FUKE, & CHEN
– 2020年6月
The Latest on Post-Filing Data in China’s Patent Law
– 2020年4月
China Provides Specific Directions to Strengthen Patent / Technology Protection from 2020 to 2021
– 2020年4月
Diagnostic Claims in China
– 2020年1月
Hong Kong Launches New Original Grant Patent System
– 2019年12月
AI, Big Data, and Blockchain – CNIPA seeks public comment on draft patent examination guidelines
– 2019年11月
Major and Exciting Changes to China’s Patent Law on the Horizon
– 2019年2月
Happy Lunar New Year!
– 2019年1月
Finally a unified “Court of Appeal” for technology IP in China
– 2019年1月
Can several alternate groups in a Markush claim be arbitrarily deleted during invalidation?
– 2018年12月
No % homology? How to craft allowable claim scope around sequences to comply with China’s strict written description requirements
– 2018年11月
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?
– 2018年11月
Is it Sufficient to Claim an Antibody only by Describing its Antigen?
– 2018年11月
Foreign companies transferring IP out of China: things to know
– 2018年10月
After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 Extended for Another Year
– 2018年10月
USPTO harmonizes with US courts by adopting the court’s standard for interpreting claim scope
– 2018年10月
Prior Art Will Be Easier to Find due to creation of a new Prior Art Archive by Google, Cisco, MIT, and USPTO
– 2018年10月
How do foreign parties really fare in Chinese patent litigation?
– 2018年5/6月
Restructuring of SIPO Explained: To Facilitate Unified Law Enforcement and Avoid Separate Administration
– 2018年4月
SIPO to Continue Digital Advancement
– 2018年3月
Patent Protection: Are Patents Enforceable in China
– 2018年2月
Standard-Essential Patent in China Now Have Better Protection
– 2017年7月
Normal Consumer is Now the Standard for Determination of Infringement on Design Patents
– 2017年7月
Renting Products in China Now Constitutes Design Patent Infringement
– 2017年6月
New Guidelines for Patent Infringement Determination
– 2017年4月
Amendments to the Patent Examination Guidelines in China
– 2017年3月