China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent ...

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Yali Shao of Liu Shen & Associates outlines the procedures for and implications of the recent possibility of patenting software applications that exist to modify exisiting computer programs China has ...

Jiancheng Jiang of Peksung Intellectual Property describes recent case law relating to second-use inventions, and asks whether the judgments will break through China’s reliance on codified laws In ...

I'm sharing a quick chemistry fact about gunpowder, a major Chinese invention made from sulfur, carbon, and potassium nitrate. But that's just one of China's "Four Great Inventions." If you already ...

Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed trains Han Qi is a professor of Chinese history and culture at Hong Kong ...

In considering where an invention was ‘completed’ the CNIPA’s invalidation raises issues for any company carrying out R&D in China, says Jennifer Che of Eagle IP. China and the US are similar in that ...

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