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On October 17, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress ("SCNPC") promulgated the Fourth
Amendment to the China Patent Law ("CPL"), which will
come into effect on June 1, 2021.
It has been 12 years since the last amendment made in 2008 when
China also formulated the Outline of the National Intellectual
Property Strategy ("Outline"). With the implementation of
the Outline, China has gradually grown into a big intellectual
property ("IP") country characterized by the number of
valid invention patents increased from 84000 in 2007 to 1.86
million in 2019, the total number of valid registered trademarks