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April 24, 2013
Data published by IP Australia shows increasing activity from China and the Asia-Pacific region
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April 19, 2013
A former official who helped draft the second and third revisions of the Chinese Patent Law has said that proposals to revise the law a fourth time include some “potentially problematic” changes
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April 02, 2013
In a rare example of Chinese-Chinese litigation in Europe, telecoms company ZTE has prevailed over its rival Huawei in a patent dispute in Paris
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March 21, 2013
According to Dan Prud’homme of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, government officials are taking steps to improve patent quality in China
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March 05, 2013
Guilian Wang is deputy director of the first appeal division for optical and electrical technology within SIPO’s Patent Re-examination Board. She tells Emma Barraclough about re-examinations, targets and exercising in the office
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February 28, 2013
A draft revision to China’s patent examination guidelines seeks to curb grants of obviously deficient utility model and design patents, but challenges still remain
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February 06, 2013
Harmonisation of procedures, improving consistency, creating an IP marketplace and dealing with patent trolls: these were among the key challenges identified by senior IP officials at a discussion last week
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February 06, 2013
The patent rankings of the 2013 IP Survey have been released, with mergers, splits and hires leading to changes in the Europe and Asia tables
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February 01, 2013
Chinese telecoms firm Huawei is set to complain to the US antitrust watchdog the FTC about InterDigital’s patent practices