Yali Shao of Liu Shen & Associates outlines the procedures for and implications of the recent possibility of patenting software applications that exist to modify exisiting computer programs China has ...

In considering where an invention was ‘completed’ the CNIPA’s invalidation raises issues for any company carrying out R&D in China, says Jennifer Che of Eagle IP. China and the US are similar in that ...

BEIJING -- China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent applications submitted via the Patent Cooperation Treaty have led ...

A visitor walks past the China Mobile booth during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2024. GAO JING/XINHUA BEIJING — It is not easy to stand out as an innovator in China, a ...

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent applications submitted via the Patent Cooperation ...

Jiancheng Jiang of Peksung Intellectual Property describes recent case law relating to second-use inventions, and asks whether the judgments will break through China’s reliance on codified laws In ...

China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent ...

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A 2025 report from a bipartisan, congressionally chartered commission warns that China is closing in on a win, and the United ...