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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

2013-04-10

SIPO Launched New Round Evaluation of IPR Model City

The new round evaluation of national IPR model city introduces the government investment as the standard and further specifies detailed requirements such as relevant document submission, application form filling out etc. The evaluation will closely follow

2013-03-01

New Provision Added to Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Patent Dispute Cases

On February 25, 2013, the Supreme Peoples Court released the Decision of the Supreme Peoples Court on Amendments to the Interpretation of the Supreme Peoples Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law to the Trial of Patent Dispute Cases. T

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