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Top 10 PCT patent applicants in 2014
The ten leading corporate PCT applicants in 2014, based on published international applications.
Read article ↗Statistics on invention applications filed before SIPO from U.S., Japanese and Korean applicants
Statistics comparing invention patent applications filed in China by applicants from the United States, Japan and South Korea.
Read article ↗Supreme People’s Court clarifies compensation and protection scope in patent disputes
The Supreme People’s Court amended its Several Provisions on Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Patent Disputes, effective February 1, 2015. The following original-lang
Read article ↗Notes for the entry of PCT applications in China at different time points
According to "Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review" released by WIPO in 2014, the SIPO received 69,693 cases of Chinese national phase entries for PCT applications in 2012, ranked No. 3 a
Read article ↗Can a Chinese patent application be published five or six months after filing?
Question: In a pending US application, published Chinese application CN101XXXX00A has been cited against us. It appears to have been filed in July 2010, but bears a publication date of December 29, 2010. We understand that applications are normally published after 18 months. Is the publication date wrong, or can an application be published so quickly?
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