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Xiaoling Duan On 17 October 2020 China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, passed the fourth round of amendments to the Patent Law, which will come into effect on 1 June 2021. It has been eight years since the first draft was released to solicit public opinions. This latest set of changes updates China’s patent regime in the following ways. Civil litigation Article 71 introduces a punitive damages regime in the context of wilful infringement, which allows a court to grant at its discretion up to five times the actual losses ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. 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 num...

>> i don't know about the implementation measures to answer that specifically. that said, the iranian people continue to suffer grievously. the imf reported this year that the iranians are going to experience something like 40% inflation. their economy is going to be stunted another 6% this year over the 3.6% it was decreased last year. so this -- these are going to have an effect, i'm sure, probably a trickle-down effect. i don't know enough. but, again, sanctions alone aren't enough to get them to the table. brooke, when you remember when we did the iran nuclear deal under the obama administ...