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2020 Year in Review – PRC Patent Laws and Practices

By Justin Davidson (HK) and Stanley Ng on February 4, 2021 Posted in Intellectual Property, Patents

2020 was a year of change and challenge. This holds true not only for the way we live and work, but also in relation to the patent laws and practices in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). In the last year, a number of significant amendments affecting various aspects of patent prosecution and enforcement were … Continue reading

China’s 2020 Patent Law Reform and Patent Linkage System

By Justin Davidson (HK) and Stanley Ng on November 26, 2020 Posted in Patents

Patent Law Reform We discussed the second draft of proposed amendments to the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) Patent Law in our previous blog post here. Since then, on 17 October 2020 the PRC National People’s Congress (“NPC”) approved most of the amendments, though the law as passed is different from the draft in two … Continue reading