IP Alerts_AFD China Intellectual Property

2015-07-06

Validation Agreement with Morocco Entered into Force

An agreement allowing European patent applications and patents to be validated with effect for Morocco entered into force on March 1. This brings to 41 the number of countries for which patent protection can be obtained on the basis of a single European p

2015-06-23

European Parliament Votes to Bolster Intellectual Property Rights Protection

The European Parliament (EP) voted overwhelmingly here to pass a non-legislative resolution on Tuesday in support of a European Union (EU) Action Plan on the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The EU Action Plan, created by the European Com

2015-06-11

China Drafts Guideline on IP Monopolies

The National Development and Reform Commission recently began drafting a guideline for regulations on the misuse of intellectual property rights and the exercising of monopolies. The guideline will be based on the Anti-Monopoly Law and will highlight IP-r

2015-06-01

China's New Patent Administrative Enforcement Measure to Come Effect

SIPOs decision on revising patent administrative enforcement measure was examined and approved at the meeting. The newly revised measures were revised on May 29, and come into effect from July 1. The revision follows the principle of persisting in impleme

2015-05-21

Latest Development of IP5 Projects at SIPO's end

Latest Statistics The number of patent applications received by the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) continued to increase in 2014. Throughout the year, SIPO received a total number of 2,361,000 applications for invention patents, utilit

2015-05-20

Global Patent Examination Information Added to SIPO's CPQUERY

The SIPO has added the Global Patent Examination Information into the China Patent Examination Inquiry Platform (http://cpquery.sipo.gov.cn/), so as to meet the inquiry demand of public users and examiners on such information. As of May 18 2015, by inputt

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