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The draft amendment to the Patent Law started the third instance

In order to encourage the patentee to voluntarily open up the license and promote the exploitation and use of the patent, some members of the Standing Committee and the general public proposed that that the provisions on incentive measures be increased and that the annual fee paid by the patentee sh

Draft amendments to the Patent Law: proposed reduction or exemption of annual fee for patent rights subject to open license

The 22nd Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) was held in Beijing on October 13, 2017. The 22nd Session  will examine the third draft of the Patent Law amendment, said Zang Tiewei, spokesman for the Legislative Affairs Committee of the NPC Standing

Sharp and Daimler agree to license LTE Communication Standard Patent

Sharp, the Japanese company owned by Hon Hai Corporation, announced yesterday that it had reached an agreement with the car-maker Daimler, to license the LTE communications standard that covers the vast majority of its vehicles.Earlier in mid-2019, Sharp filed five patent infringement

WTOIP, claims to be a "IP unicorn", was sued by trademark search service provider Guofang company

Foshan Guofang Identification Technology co., LTD. is a professional trademark retrieval company in the industry which has a certain reputation. When they use the search engine to retrieval the keywords "Guofang Trademark", "Guofang Trademark Software", "Guofang Trademark Qu

Commissioner of China National Intellectual Property Administration held a video conference with Japan Patent Office

On September 29, Shen Changyu, Commissioner of The National Intellectual Property Administration of China, held a video conference with Kasutani Toshihide, the head of Japan Patent Office. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on the latest progress of the respective IPR work, revisi