Patent Reexamination Board under the State Intellectual Property Office of China recently, with respect to our client's invention patent invalidation case represented by our firm, issued the decision partially in favor of our client, declaring partial claims of Invention Patent No. 97117466.0 invalid. Thus our client partially won this invalidation case, partial claims of this patent being successfully invalidated.
Brief information about the case:
One of our clients came to us for seeking assistance to invalidate a Chinese patent. We represented our client to file a request to the Patent Reexamination Board to declare this invention patent No. 97117466.0 invalid. Through detailed grounds in paper and arguments in hearing, we represented our client to provide persuasive arguments, strong evidence and technical statements. The Panel of the Board upon examination determined to declare partial claims of Invention Patent No. 97117466.0 invalid. This invalidation case took about one year.
Attorney's comments:
In a patent invalidation case, the petitioner should prepare sufficient and solid evidences and strong grounds, and detailed statement for technical points when necessary, in order to assist the panel to understand the technical points and our grounds.
