The Chinese government has realised the importance of the patent system in promoting the innovation of technologies and has taken certain measures and steps to enhance the protection of patent rights. The following are some trends and developments on pate...

In China, there are three kinds of patent: invention, utility model and design. Only invention patents are subject to substantive examination. The requirements for patentability requirements are as follows. Patent eligibility All patent applications must ...

Almost four months after the submission of the draft Patent Law Amendment Bill of China proposed by SIPO, which passed through the Bureau Affairs Meeting of SIPO in late August 2015, the Legislative Affairs Office (LAO) of the State Council released this ...

I. Introduction Article 31 paragraph 2 of the Chinese Patent Law reads, “An application for a patent for design shall be limited to one design. Two or more similar designs of the same product or two or more designs which are incorporated in products belon...