Intellectual Property

Plans to amend China's Patent Law to give greater powers to administrative authorities could slow down the courts with appeals

Jerry Xia, Chief IP Counsel – North Asia for Honeywell, talks to China Law and Practice about how his company is investing more to develop new products that meet the needs of Chinese customers and what this means for his IP team

Professor Liu Chuntian won the Outstanding Achievement Award at China Law & Practice's awards ceremony last week. In this interview with Peter Leung of Managing IP, Liu speaks out on China's IP strategy and enforcement systems

New Measures from SIPO could see invention patents granted in a year, but questions remain over how many applications examiners can push through that quickly

Multinational pharmaceutical companies are facing strains on their revenues as many of their patents covering their biggest selling medicines are due to expire. But in China an SPC ruling on pen designs has shown that other IP rights could come to the rescue

China has identified a group of strategic emerging industries that it believes can help drive innovation and growth over the next 10 years. Benjamin Bai and Cecily Zhang explain why foreign investors need to understand the implications of this initiative

SIPO offers prioritised examination of invention patent applications involving energy conservation, new energy, alternative energy vehicles and low carbon technology.

The National Copyright Administration has caved in to the demands of the musicians in its latest Draft to the Law, but key provisions on licensing and software are causing concern

For the first time China's Copyright Law acknowledges reverse engineering, which shows the government's changing attitude and courts' readiness to rule on a difficult area of the Law