How a Trademark Case Helps Illuminate China’s NEW Patent Rules

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中国从2月5日起降低所有银行的存款准备金率的措施会让更多现金注入银行体系，从而有助于重振经济。另一项可能有助于改善中国经济但似乎很少引起法律界以外的关注的措施是中国发布了新修订的专利法实施细则。如果有效实施，这些新修订的规则有可能加强中国的专利保护机制，使中国对外国投资者而言更具吸引力。Read more

How a Trademark Case Helps Illuminate China’s NEW Patent Rules

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China’s reduction of the reserve requirement ratio for all banks beginning from February 5 is expected to help revive the economy by injecting more cash into the banking system. Another measure that is likely to help improve China’s economy but seems to have drawn little attention outside the legal community is the release of a set of revised rules to implement China’s Patent Law. If applied effectively, these revised rules have the potential to strengthen China’s patent protection mechanism, making the country more appealing to foreign investors.Read more

In Brief

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迟来的正义非正义。及时作出判决对侵害知识产权的案件尤为重要，这是由于知识产权权利人需要迅速制止侵权以尽量减少其损失。对此，中国提供了一个解决方案。 这方案如何运作？Read more

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Justice delayed is justice denied. The prompt delivery of judgments is particularly important in cases involving infringement of intellectual property rights, where holders of these rights need to minimize their losses by stopping the infringement swiftly. China does offer a solution. How does it work? Read more

SinoInsights

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中国案例指导制度的发展如何可以推动该国的知识产权司法保护，协助达到《人民法院知识产权司法保护规划（2021–2025年）》所设定的目标?Read more

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How can the development of China’s Case Guidance System promote the country’s judicial protection of intellectual property rights, helping achieve the goals set forth in the Plan for the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in People’s Courts (2021-2025)?Read more

Guiding Case 115

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2019年12月，中国最高人民法院发布了指导案例115号。四个月后，也就是2020年4月，该指导性案例所依据的二审判决被最高人民法院选定为“2019年中国法院10大知识产权案件”之一。为什么该案如此重要？这都与“行为保全”和发明的“功能性特征”的概念有关。Read more

Guiding Case 115

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In December 2019, the Supreme People’s Court of China released Guiding Case No. 115. Four months later, in April 2020, the second-instance judgment upon which this Guiding Case is based was selected by the Supreme People’s Court as one of the “Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases of Chinese Courts in 2019”. Why is this case so important? It is all related to the concepts of “act preservation” and “functional features” of inventions.Read more

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除了指导性案例，法律从业者、企业高管和其他利益相关者绝不能忘记典型案例。典型案例是另一类中国最高人民法院可以发布的有代表性的案例，以指导中国法院的审判。什么是典型案例？为什么它们很重要？Read more

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Apart from China’s Guiding Cases, legal practitioners, business executives, and other stakeholders must not forget about Typical Cases, another category of representative cases that the Supreme People’s Court of China can release to guide Chinese courts’ adjudication. What are Typical Cases? Why are they significant?Read more