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How Many Practising Patent Agents Were There in China in 2014?
By the end of 2014, China had 10,459 practising patent agents.
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SIPO Publishes Statistics on Patent Prosecution Highway Applications
The State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) published statistics on the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) covering November 1, 2011, when it began accepting foreign PPH requests, through December 31, 2014.
Read article ↗IP Rights Quick Protection Centres Receive 6,500 Design Applications
Since China launched its intellectual property quick protection programme at the end of 2012, six centres had been established in Zhongshan, Dongguan and Shunde in Guangdong; Chaoyang District in Beijing; Nantong in Jiangsu; and Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
Read article ↗Trademark Application Fee Reduced from RMB 800 to RMB 600 in October 2015
From October 15, 2015, the Chinese Trademark Office reduced the trademark registration application fee from RMB 800 to RMB 600 for one class covering up to ten designated items of goods or services.
Read article ↗Service Inventions in China: Rewards and Remuneration
Under Article 6 of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China, an invention-creation made in the course of performing an entity’s tasks, or mainly by using that entity’s material and technical resources, is a service invention-creation. “Invention-creation” includes inventions, utility models and designs.
Read article ↗Changing a Product Claim to a Manufacturing-Process Claim
During substantive examination in China, an examiner finds that claim 1, directed to a product, lacks an inventive step. May the applicant amend it to claim a process for manufacturing that product in order to overcome the objection?
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