The European Commission (EU) has finally taken a different route to solve the conumdrum posed by the COVID-19 vaccines from the US, which proposed to temporarily waive their patents early last month.
On May 31, a decision of the President of EPO dated April 8, 2021 was announced exempting applicants claiming the priority of a first filing made in PRC from filing a copy of the search results under Rule 141(1) EPC – utilisation scheme.
On Thursday, May 6, CNIPA issued a notice in General Protecht v. Gongniu Group in which the agency had accepted the petition filed by General Protecht for review of a decision in a patent infringement case against Gongniu Group in 2018.
The complete list of the Winners of the 22nd WIPO-CNIPA Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention was announced to domestic media to solicit public opinions by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on May 10, 2021.
As of March 2021, OPPO has filed for 61,000-plus patents as and granted 26,000-plus licenses worldwide. Beyond its constant focus on video codec technologies, OPPO has been striving to build a strong pool of patents to 5G telecommunications standards.
