the 171st Issue: Lawsuits involving overseas parties surge in Shanghai-China Intellectual Property

China would benefit economically by tackling the problems of cyber security and intellectual property protection now straining its relationship with the United States, the State Department’s top economic official and a leading Republican senator say... More

·Lawsuits involving overseas parties surge in Shanghai

The number of intellectual property rights lawsuits that involve an overseas party saw a major spike in Shanghai last year amid an even higher increase in the overall number of IPR-related cases... More

News in Brief

· Shenzhen listed in the first national IP model cities

· Shaanxi: Patents granted for 3,475 inventions in Xi’an

·Intellectual property protection scored low by the public

· Tianjin issued White Papers on Intellectual Property Protection and Development

· Autonomous region strengthens IPR protection

· China destroys nearly 30m pirated publications

· China meeting software protection obligation

· Chinese official accuses foreign media of groundless "labelling"

China IP Articles

· Avoiding unclearness of claims in patent application from the view of patent examinationIssue 53, By Si Yanbin, Liu Haoying, Examiners at Patent Examination Cooperation Center of the Patent Office, SIPO, Beijing,[Patent]

Article 26.4 of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China provides that “the claims shall clearly and concisely state the requested patent protection scope in accordance with the written description.” It can be seen from this provision that claims are used to determine the scope of the exclusive rights to the patent,... More

· Patent Litigation in Germany —an Introduction (I)Issue 53, By Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Senior Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert, Munich, and Honorary Professor for Intellectual Property Law,,[Patent]