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Strengthening the rights of employee inventors in China

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 11 2013

The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and

The new Chinese patent law

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • October 16 2009

On 1 October 2009 a new patent law came into effect in China bringing fundamental changes to the pre-existing law, and moving Chinese practice on patent prosecution and litigation further into line with current practice in other major countries

Jurisdiction of administrative IP cases in China

  • Bird & Bird
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  • China
  • -
  • October 16 2009

On 1 July 2009 the new "Regulation on the Division of Work in Hearing of Administrative Cases Regarding Grant and Confirmation of Patents, Trademarks and Other Intellectual Property Rights" (the "Regulation") issued by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China came into force

The new Chinese Patent Law

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 13 2009

Sweeping changes to the Chinese Patent Law (CPL) will come into effect on 1 October 2009

The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office and China: agreement on streamlining patent and trade mark application procedures

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 2 2009

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that the UK and China have signed agreements on patents and trade marks following meetings in February 2009

The new Chinese Patent Law

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 1 2009

The third amendment of the Chinese Patent Law (CPL) was passed by China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, on 27th December 2008 and will come into effect on 1st October 2009

Many grounds for invalidation

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • November 17 2008

In China, while patent infringement suits are usually handled by the People's Intermediate Courts, the determination of the validity or otherwise of a patent is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO

Wahaha gets the last laugh for now

  • Bird & Bird
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  • China
  • -
  • October 22 2008

In the latest instalment of the battle between Danone Group and Wahaha Group over the WAHAHA trademark in China, the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court has ruled that the WAHAHA trademark belonged to Wahaha

Measures against ambush marketing at Beijing Olympics announced

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • June 27 2008

In order to protect the rights of the official sponsors of the Beijing Olympics and the Olympic brand itself, the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has announced the implementation of a number of measures against ambush marketing

Liability of Chinese internet search engines enabling illegal music searches a comparative analysis of the Baidu and Yahoo cases

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • June 17 2008

On 20 December 2007, the Beijing Higher People’s Court (the "Court") decided against Yahoo! China ("Yahoo") in a case brought against it by 11 major record companies, in which Yahoo was held to have infringed the plaintiffs’ copyright by including a search function for locating illegal music files as part of its search engine capabilities