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Examining Upcoming Changes to the Implementing Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law

IP Watchdog

Recently, amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law were issued and will take effect from January 20, 2024. The Regulations align with the revisions made to the Patent Law in 2020 and provide further guidance.

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Highlights of Revised Regulations for Implementing Patent Law of China

JD Supra Law

On December 11, 2023, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced its decision to amend the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “2023 Regulations”), marking the first update in over 13 years since the last amendment in 2010.

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Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)

JD Supra Law

the Federal Circuit reminds us that most verities in patent law are not eternal and frequently subject to case-by-case interpretation, in this case the purported verity being that reciting the indefinite article ("a") in a patent claim is construed to mean "one or more.". Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

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[Guest post]: The proportionality test in European patent law

The IPKat

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed.

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New Era of China Patent Law

LexBlog IP

This change represents a considerable shift in the intellectual property law landscape within the country, aiming to promote an environment of genuine innovation and integrity. Genuine Inventive Activities: Requires applications to be based on real and original inventive activities.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Kat news Eleonora Rosati commented in a Politico article on the refusal of the trade mark application for the figurative sign by the EUIPO (no. Events 18-19 April 2024: AIPPI Trilateral Seminar The Polish, German and French Groups of AIPPI organise the traditional joint seminar on IP related issues. Read more about this course here.

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What I’m reading from academic journals

Patently-O

The following are a few of the articles that I’ve been delving into this past week: James Hicks, Do Patents Drive Investment in Software? , 1277 (2024). Ana Santos Rutschman, From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern Pharmaceutical Company , Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law (2024) (forthcoming).