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 ...

China is gaining a solid reputation as a pharmaceutical innovation hub, shifting from a copycat drug maker to one whose ...

BEIJING -- 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 Treaty have led ...

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

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 ...

Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed ...

A team of scientists in China worked on a significant innovation that can be used to fool the country's enemies during wars. The team claims that its latest innovation can turn a drone with radar ...

Jiancheng Jiang of Peksung Intellectual Property describes recent case law relating to second-use inventions, and asks whether the judgments will break through China’s reliance on codified laws In ...

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