Yu BAI Attorney-at-Law Chinese Patent Attorney Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm In patent confirmation proceedings, whether the claim to priority right establishes can have dominant influence on the heading direction of the case. Losing the priority right can be fatalonce the priority right is rendered void, a greater range of prejudicial documents can be cited in rejection to the novelty or inventiveness of the subject patent. For example, in that case, a reference document published on a date betwe...

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Yan WANG Chinese Attorney-at-Law Binghui WANG Chinese Attorney-at-Law Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm Forewords It is well known that one of the most common issues in trademark right allowance and affirmation cases is whether a trademark constitutes a si...

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Forward China has a big number in both patent filings and disputes. In 2015, the patent-related civil dispute cases received by the courts all over China totaled 11,607. Although there is no accurate statistics of the respective proportion of inventi...

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Tao CHEN Chinese Patent Attorney Sai CHEN Chinese Attorney-at-Law Executive Summary 1. On direct infringement, the high court perused three stages of design and RD, manufacture, and factory inspection of Sony China, affirmed infringement in the first...

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Wei Chixue Law Firm Contents Foreword I. Case Summary 1. Basic Information 2. Case Intruduction II. Infringement Determination in Design Patent Infringement Disputes in China 1. Determination of Similarity of Designs 2. Impact of the Design Patent an...

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Sai Chen, Attorney-at-Law Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm Both trademark and trade name are important commercial signs used to identify the origin of the products and services. In China, the conflict between trademark right and trade name right happens o...

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Parallel import has always been one of the hot issues and difficult problems in the legal field of intellectual property. In China, parallel import of patented products has been identified explicitly as non-infringing along with the third amendment o...

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Wei Chixue Law Firm Basic Information The patentee (plaintiff in the first instance, appellant in the second instance, applicant in the retrial procedure): Bridgestone Corporation (hereafter referred to as Bridgestone Company) The accused infringers...

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Sai CHEN Attorney-at-Law Wei Chixue Law Firm Chinese intellectual property laws mainly consist of patent, trademark, copyright, and Anti-unfair Competition Law. Anti-unfair Competition Law regulates those unfair acts that the other three categories o...

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