Patent

Jiangxi's Total Annual Patent Applications Exceeded 100,000 for the First Time

It was known from Jiangxi Provincial Market Supervision Bureau that from January to November 2020, the total number of patent applications in Jiangxi reached 101,658, which was a year-on-year increase of 27.4%; 72,987 patents were granted, a year-on-year increase of 37.2%. S

Added value of China's Patent-intensive Industries Reached 1.4631 trillion yuan in 2019

On December 31, China National Intellectual Property Administration and the National Bureau of Statistics jointly issued the "Announcement on the National Patent-intensive Industry Value Added Data in 2019". The announcement showed that the national patent-intensive industry adde

Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ruled on dispute between Samsung and Ericsson over the royalty of SEP

On December 25, Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court made a case against the standard-essential patents royalty fee dispute case that the Applicant Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and the Applicant Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Samsung China, the Applicant Samsung (China) Investment

HTC Sued for Patent Infringement for Circuit Recovery System in Smartphones

On Monday, Pearl IP Licensing LLC filed a complaint against HTC America, Inc., a consumer electronics company, in the Western District of Washington for patent infringement alleging that HTC infringed its patent through the accused product’s ability to recover from voltage variance through a battery

The US and Mexico implement new Parallel Patent Grant initiative

On December 7, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) announced the implementation of their brand new Parallel Patent Grant initiative, otherwise known as the PPG. It takes the form of a worksharing agreement between the tw