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

"Guidelines for Patent Examination" had been decided to be amended by CNIPA, which is hereby issued and will take effect as of the date of January 15, 2021.CNIPA decided to make modifications to Guidelines for Patent Examination as follows:First Modifications to Section 3.5, Chapter 10, Part Ⅱ 3.5 S

On October 17, the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National Peoples Congress passed the decision on amending the Patent Law. President Xi Jinping signed Presidential Decree No. 55 to be announced. The newly revised Patent Law will be formally implemented on June 1, 2021.The interp