IP Alerts_AFD China Intellectual Property

2013-08-30

China's Legislature Adopts Amendment to Trademark Law

On August 30, the third amendment to Trademark Law was approved at the 4th session of the Standing Committee of the twelfth National Peoples Congress. This amendment will take effect on May 1, 2014. The new amendment mainly focused on three aspects: I. Mu

2013-07-30

TW Patent Act Amendment: Introducing Punitive Damages

Initiated by the proposals of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwans Patent Act underwent its latest amendment on May 31, 2013 and includes the following changes: the introduction of punitive damages and provisions governing a patent application for invention and

2013-06-26

Six New Languages Added to Patent Translate

In a move to further improve multilingual access to information contained in patent documents, the European Patent Office (EPO) today made another set of European languages available in its free machine translation service Patent Translate. With the addit

2013-06-05

Japanese-English Machine Translation for Patents Goes Live at EPO

The EPO and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) today announced the launch of the Japanese-English component of the EPO's automatic translation service Patent Translate. This means more than a million Japanese patent documents available via the EPO's global pat

2013-06-04

Europe and China Agree to Use Same Patent Cassification System (CPC)

The European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance their cooperation in the area of patent classification. Under the terms of the MoU, as of January

2013-05-13

SIPO Built a Patent Statistics Publishing Mechanism for Strategic Emerging Industries

The State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) built a mechanism to publish patent statistics concerning strategic emerging industries after three years effort. According to industry insiders, the patent statistics publishing mechanism, as a key p

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