The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) will be closed from September 13, 2019 to September 15, 2019 for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节). All official deadlines falling on the above holiday will be automatically extended to September 16, 2019. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar – usually falling in September or October. Chinese celebrate the holiday by gathering with …
Best Patent Practices For US Companies With Chinese R&D
Chinese and U.S. patent law have significant differences. This article will discuss some of the incentives and long-term patent-related risks facing U.S. companies with research and development centers and inventors in China. Inventor Remuneration Article 16 of the China Patent Law requires employers (or other entity assigned patent rights) to provide inventors with reasonable remuneration. Articles 76- 78 of the Rules of Implementing the Patent Law provide a minimum of 3000 RMB (about $440) to be paid within three months …
Chinese Patent Filings Down Almost 10% in First Half of 2019
At a press conference earlier this month, a spokesperson for the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), announced that the number of Chinese invention patent applications filed in the first half of 2019 decreased by 9.4% year on year. Still, that amounted to 649,000 applications in half a year, which is more than the number of annual U.S. patent application filings. Chinese Trademark applications were also down. However, despite the overall decrease in patent filings, the number of foreign-originated Chinese …
CNIPA Reduces TM Fees Effective July 1, 2019
The China National Intellectual Property Agency has announced a reduction in two fees effective July 1, 2019. The Trademark Renewal Fee is cut in half from 1000 RMB to 500 RMB. The bibliographic data change fee is reduced from 250 RMB to 150 RMB and to 0 RMB if filed electronically. A further 10% reduction in fees is provided for e-filing when available (i.e., for most filings). Note that these fee reductions only apply to TM filing and prosecution and …