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The antitrust cop says that the more than 300 patent listings stall generic competition, keeping prices high for diabetes drugs, inhalers and more. ....
China National Intellectual Property Administration CNIPA sanctioned 7 Chinese patent firms for filing over 20,000 abnormal junk patent applications. Sanctions included suspensions in accepting new business for 6 or 12 months and 1 revocation of a patent license. ....
Monday, March 15, 2021 On March 12, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released the “Measures Regarding the Regulation of Patent Applications” (关于规范申请专利行为的办法) effective immediately. CNIPA is continuing the transition from quantity to quality in patent applications and one method is to reject ‘abnormal’ or ‘irregular’ (junk) patent applications as defined in the Measures. These measures and the concurrent elimination of monetary incentives for patent filings should decrease the total amount of applications filed in China and specifically junk patents. Article 2 defines the following behaviors as abnormal: (1) Simultaneously or successively submitting multiple patent applications that are obviously the same in invention-creation content, or are essentially formed by simple combinations of different invention-creation features or elements; ....
Monday, February 15, 2021 As is often the case in China, a critical change in the IP system has taken place without the publicity of a new law but with an internal administrative document hidden on a government website. With an administrative Circular issued on January 27, 2021, the China IP office is rewriting the rules that led to the massive surge in low-quality patent filings (a/k/a junk patents) by Chinese firms during the last decade, while subtly changing the scope of the statutory rules on the examination of utility models and design patents. The ultimate goal is another implementation of an old Marxist rule, namely, the transformation from quantity to quality. ....
Get your patent through, you re inevitably going to get sued, because someone else claims that they have inventsed that invention were. i understand that it s expensive to run any government office, but this has a direct relationship to prosperity. there must be a lot of junk patents out there, but some actually come to fruition, make people rich, employ people and united states. that s right. and that s the big problem, that you know, it s not just the funny patents that you see, you know, with people, this is a real patent someone invented, how to get your cat to follow a laser pointer. i mean, there are a lot of things like that that are causing the patents to have a longer backlog. but the microsofts of the world and intels and big tech companies, these are the ones that are really fueling innovation, the clean technology, the clean energy companies. this is the technology and these are the jobs of the future, and ....