IP News_AFD China Intellectual Property

2013-02-28

China Incorporates Enterprise IP Management under National Standard Regulation

China recently published through General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and Standardization Administration of China (SAC) the Norms for Enterprise Intellectual Property Management, which is effective on 1 March 20

2013-02-26

Huawei, ZTE Hold Most Patents in 2012

Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. were granted the most invention patents on the Chinese mainland in 2012, the intellectual property authority said Thursday. Gan Shaoning, deputy director of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), said at a new

2013-02-22

The State Council Amends Four National Regulations on IPR

An executive meeting of the State Council released four independent decisions on amending the Regulation on the Implementation of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulation on the Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination o

2013-01-29

SIPO Received 14% More PCT Fillings in 2012

According to the latest statistics released by SIPO, SIPO received 19,926 PCT applications in 2012, up 14.0% over the previous year， 18,145 of which were from domestic applicants, representing 91.1% of the total and up 12.8%; 1,781 of which were from abro

2013-01-20

China Grants More Patents in 2012

The SIPO granted 1.26 million patents in 2012 to domestic and overseas applicants, up 31.25 percent from a year earlier. Now, China had 435,000 legitimate invention patents, which represent an average of 3.23 invention patents for every 10,000 Chinese. Th

2013-01-01

SIPO Announces Two New Patent Prosecution Highway Partnerships

At the end of 2012, State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) announced the January 1, 2013 launch of new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) with the patent offices of the Denmark and Finland. The expedited examination in each office will allow app











Insights & News

IP Updates

AFD News