As China adopts the first-to-file principle in trademark registration, special rules need to be put in place to regulate circumstances where trademark applications are filed on the same day.
The severity of the scandals shocked everyone within and beyond China.If the patent approvers work properly to screen off unhealthy food products from patent, they can avoid the bad consequences.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld that a defendant seeking to overcome the presumption of validity of an issued US patent has to prove its invalidity by clear and convincing evidence.
In an unprecedented move, on June 30, 2011, a group of global companies including Apple and Microsoft paid $4.5 billion for the entire patent portfolio of the bankrupted Nortel Networks.
Packaging is one of the essentials in the manufacturing and marketing of commodities. The packaging is directly concerned with the value of the commodity in market circulation.
Astronomical compensation is not new in foreign countries. In recent years, massive awards and enormous claims have been prevalent in the United States.
The defenses based on challenging the validity of patents refer to an argument that the defendant denies plaintiff’s patent validity when being sued for patent infringement.
