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- PIAC 2015: Gathering IP Service Stars
- Patent Information Annual Conference of China (PIAC), as the largest international patent information exchanging gala in Asia, has been successfully held for six years since its establishment...
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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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- Landmark IP Cases of China-Influential & Foreign Related (2014) （Patent Cases）
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- The Rights of Prior User of Unregistered Trademarks and Liability for Civil Compensation for Trademark Infringement
- China has a “first-to-file” system for trademark protection, but the new Trademark Law which took effect as of 1 May 2014 for the first time provides for the prior right to...
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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...
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- Counter Technical Inspiration for Inventive Step Determination
- The determination of inventive step is one of the essential steps in the grant and validation of patents...
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- Chinese Patent Prices: Problems, Reasons and Measures
- One of the main methods to effectively and quickly stimulate passions of market players for innovation and entrepreneurship is to substantially hike IP prices...
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- Collaboration: A Path to Profit
- According to statistics provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 5,100 colleges, universities and research institutions nationwide produce around 30,000 research results each year.
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- A Study on the Costing of Patent Agency Industry
- Patent agency service industry is an important support for the development of an innovative society, and its quality plays an essential role...
