It is stipulated in the newly revised Patent Law in Article 42 Paragraph 3: "For the purpose of making up the time required for the assessment and approval of the marketing of a new drug, the patent administrative department of the State Council may, at the request of the patentee, provide patent te

In order to avoid personal contact during the epidemic prevention and control period, Beijing Customs has launched the "Cloud Confirmation" platform for remote confirmation of intellectual property rights holders since the beginning of this year. On January 28, an international luxury goods company

The "Patent Prosecution Highway" (PPH) has become one of the important ways for Chinese applicants to seek rapid patent protection in foreign markets. As of the end of 2020, CNIPA has signed PPH cooperation agreements with 30 patent examination offices in the world.The PPH project is currently the m

1. Basic case data statisticsSince its establishment on January 1, 2019, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme Peoples Court has accepted 5,121 cases and concluded 4,220 cases. Among them, 2,787 cases were approved in 2020, an increase of 1,354 cases over 2019, a year-on-year increase of

In 2020, 530 thousand invention patents were granted in China. As of the end of 2020, the number of effective invention patents in China was 3.058 million. In 2020, 2.377 million utility model patents were granted in China. As of the end of 2020, the effective number of utility model patents was 6.9