For the year 2014, China recorded around 928,000 invention patent applications which is more than any other country. This number of applications has been going on for the fourth consecutive year. The State Intellectual Property Office found out that 663,000 inventions have high quality and market value and around 4.9 patents per 10,000 were filed. [...]
The country’s Ministry of Commerce is stepping up their efforts in cracking down on counterfeit products that are sold in the booming online market. Shen Danyang a ministry spokesperson said that through cooperation with the government and industrial organizations an enterprises, the ministry will strengthen efforts to get rid for fake goods online and to [...]
China plans to triple the number of patents they file by 2020 as the government is looking to boost the high tech economy in several areas ranging from agriculture to pharmaceuticals. The country targets 14 invention patents per 10,000 habitants by 2020 compared to 4 in 2013. For 2013 the county was published 629,612 patents [...]
Alibaba Group is facing scrutiny after their website was taught selling counterfeit goods which was then removed by the company. An as of yesterday more than 90 million listings were taken off the site that have might breached the intellectual property rights. The fake products were taken down across the e-commerce platforms of Alibaba until [...]
A Beijing court has once again ruled against Apple by upholding its validity of a patent that was held by a Chinese company giving way to the Chinese company to continue filing its own case against Apple for infringement of the intellectual property rights. Apple is now in court fighting the Shanghai based Zhizhen Internet [...]
Before the month ends the city will be releasing a plan that will implement a joint property ownership policy starting with an affordable housing project that will start in the second half of this year. The joint property ownership means that government, enterprises and home buyers will each have a stake in possessing a given [...]
Based on a report given by the Beijing Intellectual Property Office said that the number of patent applications has hit a record high last year. The number of applications reached 123,300 a year on year increase of around 33 percent and all application were related to inventions involving 54 percent of the total number of [...]
US mobile phone company InterDigital Inc the company that complained that its executives are being threatened for pursuing the patent infringement claims against one of China’s biggest telecommunication companies recently lost its case at a US trade agency. The US International Trade Commission in Washington said that they find Huawei Technology, ZTE Corp., and Nokia [...]
With the view to facilitate a better understanding of the country’s Patent Law, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has issued a set of frequently asked questions regarding various patent issues in the country. The answers provided are based on existing regulations. Detailed information can be found below. Q: Can computer software be patented in China? [...]
China made its very first survey of movable cultural relics but will not include relics that are owned by private collectors. The work team was assigned to lead the survey and they adopted an implementation plan that defined the targets of the survey. China announced that they will be launching the first census on moveable [...]
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