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Supreme People’s Court, Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (2010) (Abstract)
最高人民法院知识产权案件年度报告 (2010) (摘要)

Design can still be protected under Anti-unfair Competition Law after the patent expires.

Issue: June 2011

CLP Reference: 5100/11.04.13

PRC Reference: 法办 [2011] 81号

Promulgated: 13 April 2011

Keywords (click to search): intellectual property trademark patent copyright infringement competition franchising manufacturing process design patent

Issued: April 13 2011

Main contents: The 2010 Report selected 43 issues with broad guiding significance from 36 cases including:

(1) When a different understanding of the contents of a claim exists, interpretation should be effected based on the description and drawings

(2) Determination of the equivalence of technical features in a patent infringement dispute

(3) Issue of whether registration of a work constitutes...

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