On September 15, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB) under the Staten Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) held an oral hearing for the patent invalidation request case numbered 4W105696. Reportedly, it is the fifth case in the batch of major cases pendin

It is an arduous and important task for a patentee, after a patent has been granted, to enforce the patent and maximize the value of the patent and effectively combat any form of infringements. Considering the geographic limitation, it may be more difficu

Prosecution of a business method patent application is still a hard work in China. AFD assisted a client on a business method-related application. In the First Office Action, the Examiner pointed out that a group of claims are not in conformity with the p

Regarding a subject matter in related to a method for treating diseases, sometimes it might be difficult for foreign clients to understand the related provisions of the Patent Law. Most foreign patents / patent applications in this specific category may n

Many professionals have the same opinion that Chinese examiners follow very strict rules on the examination on inventiveness issue recent years. It looks common that Examiners may underestimate the inventiveness of claims. In many cases, after reviewing i

Our client is challenged by a rival company in a few patent disputes worldwide. As said in an old adage - the best defense is a good offense, our client decides to request for declaration of invalidation for the rivals patents in China as an important ste

One of the most difficulties every patent attorney would encounter is when all pending claims and the rest contents in application documents are held as having no substantial patentable content to be granted by examiners. Where Examiners believe that a pa

SHANGHAI - A Chinese company met Apple Inc in court on Wednesday, accusing the US-based tech giant of intellectual property right infringement regarding software used in its popular Siri software. Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co, the developer of v

By Kevin Nie, China IP Magazine (China IP) Among various IP right enforcement cases, those involving chemical manufacturing processes and trade secrets are deemed as the hardest to enforce by legal professionals. After a year of preparation and trial, the

Patent Reexamination Board under the State Intellectual Property Office of China recently, with respect to the Decision of Rejection to our client's invention patent application, issued the Decision in favor of our client, informing us the Rejection previ