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China leads global battery patent race for post-lithium-ion era

​China ranked first in battery patents in the post-lithium-ion era, accounting for more than half of the world's total, according to statistics over the past decade published by Nikkei Asia. Nikkei commissioned the Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute for an analysis.

China's top intellectual property court handles 18% more cases in 2022

The Intellectual Property Court of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) handled 6,183 cases in 2022, up 18% from 2021, according to a report released by the SPC last Thursday. Of the new cases handled in 2022, 1338 concerned strategic emerging industries.

EPO applications from China hit a new record in 2022, with Huawei ranks first ​

The European Patent Office received 19,041 patent applications from china in 2022, up 15.1 percent on the precious year and a new record (the largest increase among the 20 major application countries and regions), according to the EPO’s Patent Index 2022 released on Tuesday.

2023 Legal Forum on ICV will kick off on March 30 in Beijing

The 2023 Legal Forum on Intelligent Connected Vehicle will kick off on March 30, 2023 at the Broadcasting Tower Hotel Beijing. The hybrid forumaims to promote innovation development and improve legal environment of the ICV Industry.

Where AI Works Well and Where it Doesn’t in Predicting Standard Essentiality for Patents

​Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.