The Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) recently issued Administrative Measures of Collective Patent Examination (pilot) (专利申请集中审查管理办法（试行). The new measures allow for the collective examination of patent applications related to the same technology by the same applicant, thereby potentially expediting examination of groups of patent application and improving consistency of examination of the group applications.
Hong Kong, PRC Launches New Patent System Effective December 19, 2019
Effective December 19, 2019, Hong Kong will launch a new patent system that includes a new “original grant patent” (OGP), substantive examination for short term patents (STPs), and maintains the current re-registration system based on patents from China (CN), the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Patent Office (EPO) that designate the United Kingdom. The new patent system is based on the Patents (Amendment) Ordinance 2016 passed on June 10, 2016 and Patents (General) (Amendment) Rules 2019 issued on March …
New China Patent Examination Guidelines Effective November 1, 2019
The China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) formally announced the newly amended Patent Examination Guidelines (“Guidelines”) effective on November 1, 2019. The Guidelines were amended to improve patent quality and efficient examination. Highlights 1. Examiner interviews are made more available, allowing applicants to request interviews anytime during substantive examination. 2. Applicants may request expedited examination pursuant to “Regulation on Patent Prioritized Examination.” 3. For same-day filing of invention and utility model patent applications, by default, the invention patent application is …
Upcoming Shanghai Conference – Design of Medical Devices
SLW is sponsoring the upcoming Design of Medical Devices Conference in Shanghai, China on December 6-8, 2019. Douglas Portnow and Aaron Wininger, Director of the China Intellectual Property Practice at SLW will be speaking about patent law including using Chinese local government subsidies and rewards to build your patent portfolio at minimal cost. The Design of Medical Devices Conference aims to strengthen the cooperation between academic world and industry, facilitate medical device-related policies, research and education at the University of Minnesota …