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Hidenori Hamai of Shiga International Patent Office compares particular claim expressions at the JPO, USPTO, and EPO

The amended Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law adjust several key aspects of China’s patent system, including partial design patents, national priority for designs, patent-term extensions and the open licensing regime, signalling welcome changes to the national IP landscape.

Recently, amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law were issued and will take effect from January 20, 2024.

As outlined in our previous post, on June 1, 2021 the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law came into effect, allowing partial claiming in design patent applications. Until this...

Beyond the language barrier, there are special considerations in formulating an intellectual property portfolio in Taiwan and China, write Wisdom Laws George J.H. Huang and Foley & Lardners Kiri Lee Sharon

Min Son of Hanol IP & Law provides a guide to the common pitfalls, legislation, and case law concerning the trademark protection, presentation, and promotion of food companies’ products in Korea

The Chinese Patent Law, specifically Article 24, prescribes that an invention-creation for which a patent is applied does not lose its novelty where, within six months before the date...

It may not be straightforward but it is possible to obtain protection for valuable combination patents in Brazil, say Lívia Figueiredo and Priscila Kashiwabara of Kasznar Leonardos Intellectual Property.

In a "first to file" patent system as exists in the United States and in most countries throughout the world, timing of when to file a patent application is critically important but must be balanced...