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 ...

Oliver Mayer, chairman of an international expert jury assessing the inventions, said they were struck by both the teenager from rural China and his invention. He recalled Jia walking onstage in a ...

A 2025 report from a bipartisan, congressionally chartered commission warns that China is closing in on a win, and the United ...

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent applications submitted via the Patent Cooperation ...

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 ...

A visitor walks past the China Mobile booth during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2024. GAO JING/XINHUA BEIJING — It is not easy to stand out as an innovator in China, a ...

Patent offices around the world have long grappled with the question of what intellectual property rights to grant over computer software. Lin Deng examines China's approach and looks at how ...

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