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- New Weapon for IP Application: Amendment to China’s “Law on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achi
- China promulgated its revised Law on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements (the Law) on August 31, 2015. China’s NPC Standing Committee made a substantial amendment
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- The Prior Application Doctrine and the Technical Contribution Matching Doctrine in Patent Application Amendments
- By providing that any amendment to the application shall not extend beyond the content of the original description and claims...
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- The Boundary for Proper IP Warning Letter -- An Analysis of the Supreme People’s Court Decision in the Edan Case
- IP warning letters have been increasingly used in IP enforcement practices, of which the legal skills for sending and responding have drawn some attention from the legal circles in our country...
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- Proposals for Improving Remedies Available for Patent Infringement in China
- Although the remedies available for patent infringement in China have improved in recent years, there is room for further improvement. This article looks briefly at the remedies available...
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- Prior User Rights in Chinese Trademark Law
- Article 59(3) of China’s new trademark law grants modest protection to trademarks which have become readily distinguishable through prior commercial use...
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- Legal Protection of Drug Insert Sheet
- Nowadays, the issue of whether drug specification or drug insert sheet should be protected by copyright law has once again attracted public attention...
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- Three Basic Preconditions for Amending Patent Application Files
- When determining the rules governing the amendment to patent application files, as basic preconditions, the differentiation should be made between...
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- Application of Presumption of Confusion in Parallel Import Trademark Infringement
- There are two main viewpoints towards trademark infringement in parallel import: “Non-infringement as general principle, infringement as exception”...
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- Study on the Difficulties and Countermeasures in the Development of Patent Pledge Financing
- Patent pledge financing is one of the main forms of the transformation of the intellectual property, and great progress has been made in developing patent pledge financing since 2008 when patent...
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- New Challenges to Patent Exhaustion Doctrine in Biotechnology
- The recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. (2013) was recently concluded by Supreme Court of the U.S., from which raised a new question: whether a farmer who...
