On January 18, 2024, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) posted the Development Report on Building a Powerful Country on Intellectual Property Rights (2023) (知识产权强国建设发展报告(2023年)) prepared by the Office of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Building a Powerful IP Country. The Report “summarizes the progress of the development goals of building a powerful country in intellectual property and the results achieved in building a powerful country in intellectual property” such as the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people.
Huawei U.S. Patent Grants Drop 24% in 2023; BOE Drops Out of the Top 10
Accordingly to analysis by Harrity Patent Analytics, Huawei ranked 10th for US patent grants in 2023, down 3 spots from 2022 with a 24% drop in patent grants. BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. dropped even further to 19th down from 8th in 2022. BOE had a 38% drop in granted US patents. Tencent was 54th this year with an 11% drop in patent grants. Oppo was down 32%. Baidu was up only 1%. Xiaomi was down 7% and didn’t make …
Chinese Utility Model Grants Down 25.5% in 2023, Invention Patent Grants Up 15.4% in Shift from Quantity to Quality
In China’s shift from quantity to quality, 25.5% fewer utility models were granted in 2023 versus 2022. Design patent grants were also down 11.5% according to a January 16, 2024 press conference held by the State Council Information Office. In contrast, invention patent grants were up 15.4%. Invention patent applications are substantively examined while utility models and designs only undergo a preliminary examination. 2024 may show a continuing downward trend for utility models as the amended Patent Examination Guidelines, effective …
China’s Supreme People’s Court Sets Low FRAND Rate in Another OPPO Case
Fresh off OPPO’s victory at the Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court in a global Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) standard essential patent (SEP) rate setting case, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) of China set a low rate in another case for six Chinese SEPs 99813601.8、00815854.1、99813602.6、99813640.9、01803954.5 and 99813641.7 related to the Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) standard. The SPC ordered OPPO to pay Advanced Codec Technologies LLC (ACT) 15,390,527 RMB (~$2.165 million USD) or $0.008 per unit, with an average licensing …