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New DK Patent Prosecution Highway-agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on January 28, 2013
New Patent Prosecution Highway agreement between the DKPTO and China’s SIPO Since the beginning of 2013 a new PPH agreement enables Danish patent applicants to obtain a patent in China in a faster and more cost-effective way. On 1 January 2013 a PPH agreement on a pilot project basis came into effect between the Danish...
China to drive on to the Patent Prosecution Highway
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on June 24, 2010
According to a USPTO press release, the intellectual property offices of China (SIPO) and USA (USPTO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 May 2010, which includes establishing a bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement between the two offices. The PPH agreement will be SIPO’s first, thus driving China onto the Patent Prosecution Highway...
IP in China? It’s not all bad
By AWA | Posted on June 7, 2010
Recent statistics on the outcomes of reported IP litigations in the most important courts in China are encouraging: The total number of trademark-related cases in 2009 handled by the Chinese courts was 6,906, up almost 11 per cent from 2008. 2008 was up by 79 per cent in relation to 2007. Administratively, the numbers are...
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