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Influence of the Determination of Technical Problem Actually Solved on the Determination of Technical Teaching | Case on...

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The technical problem actually solved by an invention should be determined based on distinguishing technical feature of the claims as compared with the most-related prior art and the technical effect can be known by a person...more

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Determination of Product Packaging and Decoration that has Certain Influence | Curry Product Packaging Unfair Competition Dispute

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When the text, graphics, colors and arrangement and combinations attached to the goods or their packaging can distinguish the source of the goods, it constitutes the packaging and decoration with certain influence protected...more

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Basic Principles and Steps of Design Similarity Comparison |The Patent Infringement Case of “Beauty Roller”

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Legal basis of the judgment - Article 11 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on Some Issues concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Disputes over Infringement of Patent Rights gives the basic...more

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Judicial Remedy of Administrative Decision on Disputes over Patent Infringement | Administrative Lawsuit on Infringement on...

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Judgment Gist - Customary design is a prior design that is well known by the general consumers and can be recalled by the general consumers upon merely mentioning of the product name. When mentioning beauty roller...more

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How to reduce the risk of pharmaceutical patent application in China?

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As a large pharmaceutical consumer market, China's position in the layout of pharmaceutical patents has been valued. Inventions such as medical use, drug crystalline form and the like, have been paid more attention in the...more

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Thoughts on Strategy for Arguing against Objection of Lacking Essential Technical Features

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I Introduction - Under Rule 20.2 of the Implementation Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law, “The independent claim shall outline the technical solution of an invention or utility model and state the essential technical...more

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2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

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Influence of Implementability of Prior Art in Determination of Novelty and Inventiveness

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In patent examination, the examiner will cite a prior art document in order to determine whether or not an invention or utility model is novel and inventive. The applicants challenge the implementability of the cited prior...more

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Determination of the closest prior art in the inventiveness examination of Chinese invention patents

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In the practice of patent examination in China, to determine whether an invention has prominent substantive features is to determine, to the person skilled in the art, whether the claimed invention is non-obvious as compared...more

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China: Criteria for Examining Inventive Step of Crystalline Form Inventions and Suggestions for Patenting Crystalline Forms

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Polymorphism of a pharmaceutical compound refers to its state of existing in different solid forms that is caused by the fact that the molecules of the compound, though being of the same chemical structure, are arranged in...more

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Conflicting Application in China’s Patent System

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According to the Chinese Patent Law, the prior art means any technology known to the public before the filing date of a patent application in China or abroad. However, there is a type of special patent application filed...more

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Patent Right Evaluation Report in China’s Patent System

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China's Patent Law stipulates that where a patent infringement dispute involves a utility model patent or a design patent, the people's court or the relevant administrative department may require the patentee or the...more

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Principle of Holistic Consideration in Inventiveness Determination

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Under Section 3.1 of Chapter 4, Part II of the Guidelines for Patent Examination, when evaluating whether or not an invention involves an inventive step, the examiner shall consider not only the technical solution itself, but...more

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On Analysis of Hindsight Bias in Inventiveness Determination

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The Guidelines for Patent Examination provides in Section 6.2 of Chapter 4, Part II: “When evaluating the inventive step of an invention, the examiner is apt to underestimate the inventive step of the invention since he has...more

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Make Full Use of Supplementary Experimental Data in Chemical Patent Applications in China

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In recent years, post-filing supplementary experimental data has become a very hot topic in Chinese patent practice. It is attracting much attention from IP practitioners around the world. ...more

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Closest Prior Art for Patent Invalidation Proceedings in China

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According to China’s local practice, there are three steps to follow when determining whether a claimed invention is obvious when compared to the prior art: determining the closest prior art; distinguishing the...more

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2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends

This year, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first jury verdict in the landmark IP litigation between Apple and Samsung, which resulted in the jury awarding more than $1B to Apple. More than $500M of that award was...more

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How to Draft the Parameter-defined Product Claims in Chinese Patent Application

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Summary: When an uncommon parameter or a self-defined parameter is used in the claim, usually it is necessary to explain the definition and/or the measuring method of the parameter in detail. Even though a parameter is...more

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Stages of Patent Invalidation Proceedings in China

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To invalidate patent is a common attack method in the "patent war", especially when patentee uses the patent to litigate or demand high licensing fee....more

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Stages of Patent Invalidation Proceedings

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To invalidate patent is a common attack method in the "patent war", especially when patentee uses the patent to litigate or demand high licensing fee. I divide the patent invalidation proceedings into three stages:...more

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Global Patent Prosecution - August 2020: Survey of PTAB and CNIPA Proceedings in View of Proposed Regulations Regarding...

In April, the Supreme People’s Court of China published a draft for comment for “Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Administrative Cases Involving Patent Authorization and...more

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Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2018: Third Party Observations in Europe, China, Japan, and for the PCT - To File...

Both the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) accept a third party observation regarding validity of a patent application. In February 2012, it was announced that third party observations could be...more

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Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2018

A Survey of Third Party Observation Systems - Third party observations can be a cost-effective way of introducing prior art or arguments related to patentability of a published patent application. The September 2018 issue...more

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Patent Grace Period Laws in the IP5 Patent Offices: Some Similarities But Largely Different

Life science and other high technology companies most frequently file patent applications in five IP offices (IP5), namely: the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese...more

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