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Revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law Takes Effect on October 15, 2025
The newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition law expands from 33 articles to 41 articles, including General Provisions, Unfair Competition Acts, Investigations of …
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The amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law and the Patent Examination Guidelines regarding procedural aspects
The revisions to the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law of China (2023) and the Patent Examination Guidelines (2023) officially came into effect on Janu…
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New Requirements for Trademark Non-Use Cancellation Applications
Article 49 of the Chinese Trademark Law provides that “Where a registered trademark has not been put in use for three consecutive years without a justifiable re…
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Patent Examination and Grant Statistics of the IP5 Offices
According to the 2023 IP5 Statistics Report jointly issued by the world's five major intellectual property offices (IP5), a comparison of China's invention patent grant rate and examination time with the other four patent offices reveals that China's patent examination speed ranks second fastest among the IP5, trailing only Japan while surpassing South Korea and Europe.
Read article ↗Chinese Courts Concluded Over 543,000 IP Cases in 2024
The Supreme People's Court released Judicial Protection Status of Intellectual Property Rights by Chinese Courts (2024).
Read article ↗Foreign Evidence of Prior Public Use in Invalidation Proceedings
I would like to file an invalidation request against a certain patent, relying on evidence of prior public use to argue that the patent lacks novelty. However, the evidence of prior public use is not from China, but from the United States and Europe. Would such evidence obtained outside China be disqualified or disregarded by the Chinese examiner?
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