Law & Policy

SPC’s 4 administrative patent cases related to medicines included in UN case law database

​China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) on March 10 announced that four administrative cases the top court issued rulings related to medicines in 2019 and 2020 had been selected to be included in the United Nations’ Case Law Database Intellectual Property and Public Health on its o

China's NPC Deputies submit IP-related bills and proposals at Two Sessions

China’s annual plenary sessions, “Two Sessions”, of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference kicked off on March 5. Under the constitution, the NPC is the highest organ of state power in China. Some intellectual property-rela

CNIPA: subsidiary companies not eligible as respondents in administrative patent cases

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on February 23 confirmed companies’ subsidiaries as ineligible to be respondents to answer petitions in administrative patent cases

China's Civil Procedure Law amended 4th time to simplify proceedings

The 4th amendments to the Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (《中华人民共和国民事诉讼法》) were passed at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of the People’s Republic of China on December 24, 2021 and came into effect on

Guangzhou IP Court's top 10 exemplary cases of 2021

China's Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court released top 10 representative cases of enforcing rights of scientific and technological innovators.