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2025-02-28

Efforts Strengthened to Protect Trademarks

China's top intellectual property regulator has rejected 63 trademark applications attempting to capitalize on the popularity of DeepSeek, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The China National Intellectual Property Administration announced the decision on Tues

2025-02-14

China Shortens Assessment Time for Invention Patents

The average review time for invention patents in China has been reduced to 15.5 months, according to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). The CNIPA also noted that the average review time for trademark registrations remains sta

2025-02-14

US Copyright Office Releases Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

As countries around the world have been accelerating their researches on the protection of AI-related innovations, the recent release of Deepseek has drawn more global attention on the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2023, the US Cop

2025-01-31

China Takes Lead in Global Growth of IP

China's quantity and quality of patent and trademark applications both increased in the past year, with intellectual property protection getting stronger, according to a senior IP regulator. Last year, the number of valid domestic invention patents in Chi

2025-01-30

China’s Patent-intensive Sectors Contributed 13% of GDP in 2023

The added value of China's patent-intensive industries was 16.87 trillion yuan ($2.35 trillion) in 2023, contributing 13.04 percent of the country's GDP, an increase of 0.44 percentage points from the previous year, the China National Intellectual Propert

2025-01-24

Police Crack Down on Food, Drug, Environment, and IP Rights Offenses

Police in China investigated as many as 91,000 criminal cases in the fields of food and medicine safety, intellectual property rights, and environment in 2024, the Ministry of Public Security said. The ministry has carried out special campaigns in recent

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