The Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) published a final version of the revision to Chapter 9, Part II of the Guidelines for Patent Examination o…
How much disclosure is appropriate for the background section of a patent application? This question is difficult to answer, especially when it applies to a multinational app…
In China, the number of standard-essential patent (SEPs) lawsuits in the telecommunications field has been explosively increasing for the past two years, which fundamentally…
Author of Liu Shen & Associates evaluate the impact of the IoT on data ownership, its relationship to blockchain, why the IoT is vulnerable to enforcement actions from NPEs …
When inventiveness of the claimed invention is rejected during patent prosecution, it is a commonly-used method to prove technical effects by submitting supplemental e…
Mysteries of the newly established Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme Court are unveiled at the end of year 2018. A Judicial Interpretation “Provisions Regarding V…
