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Chinese drugmaker HEC Pharm loses patent lawsuit against Novartis

​A U.S. appeals court affirmed a win on Monday for Swiss drugmaker Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp against Chinese generic drugmaker HEC Pharm Co Ltd, finding that a patent covering the blockbuster multiple-sclerosis drug Gilenya is valid and a proposed HEC generic would infringe i

China’s patent-intensive industries in figures in 2020

​China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the China Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on December 30 jointly release some data to indicate the growth of China’s patent-intensive industries in 2020.

Baidu AI: unignorable cemented dominance in patent rankings

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a definitive force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial change, and has become the focus of international competition and industrial policy efforts in various countries. Driven by technological innovation, AI has been deeply

CNIPA invalidates US Celgard’s patent to tip battery technology litigation

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on December 9 invalidated the patent ZL200780042406.4 covering a co-extruded, multi-layered battery separator owned by US battery separator producer Celgard, LLC

France's Legrand awarded $310,000 in dmages thanks to China's new evidence rule

China’s Wuxi Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangsu province in December ruled in favor of France’s electrical equipment producer Legrand in a lawsuit against a Chinese company accused of infringing Legrand’s trademark rights.