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 State Council’s Several Policies on Further Encouraging the Development of Software and Integrated Circuit Industries, is a continuation and substitution of the previous Document 18.
In terms of policy implementation, it states that industry associations should give full play to their advantages in resources, promote the software IP protection and resist all IPR violations.
Document 4, also known as the “New Document 18”, continues and supersedes a Basket of Measures to Boost the Software and IC Industry,which was issued in 2000 and expired last year.
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.
Seemingly, it was not much different from other auctions, but when it came to the objects of the auction – patents – it was certainly a historic auction.
During the “First Patent Auction by the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences”, Beijing Unitalen Attorneys at Law (Unitalen),played a particularly eye-catching role.
As one of the organizers and sponsors of the auction, China Technology Exchange (CTEX) has brilliantly accomplished the tasks entrusted by the principal and played an irreplaceable role.
On December 16, 2010, after four months of intense preparation, the first patent auction by the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences was held on the trading floor of CTEX.
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