The United Kingdom’s new Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (the Act) was recently granted royal assent and is set to come into force in October 2017. The Act should make it easier ...
Shanghai Shunlong Physical Therapy Equipment Co. Ltd. of China, regarding alleged patent infringement of certain adjustable-height beds and components for the beds. The beds are used in home health
What a two-day patent information meeting discussed was "of particular significance to slow recovery of the global economic situation and robust advancement of digital technology", according to a
receives an invention patent or a new plant variety. Once the service invention has been commercialized or industrialized, the employee will then receive at least 5 percent of the annual profit or at
The first Internet-based patent translation platform in China went online on April 24. Developed by the Intellectual Property Publishing House, a publisher administrated by the State Intellectual
Apple has been sued in a patent lawsuit surrounding video streaming services used in its iTunes software and mobile operating systems. OpenTV, a subsidiary of media company the Kudelski Group, filed
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated Ex parte Schulhauser, Appeal 2013-007847 (PTAB April 28, 2016), as precedential. In this decision the Board clarified how to interpret
conference on Tuesday in Beijing. According to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, China received around 1.1 million patent applications in 2015, ranking top globally for the
For the better part of the nearly 250 years of the existence of the United States of America, the U.S. patent system has been one in which inventors could be reasonably sure that their private
BEIJING — China saw over 1.04 million patent applications from January to October this year, up by 5.8 percent year-on-year, Shen Changyu, head of the State Intellectual Property Office, said