CNIPA Issued Amendments to Several Regulations Governing Patent
Applications (Draft for Comments)
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CNIPA Issued Amendments to Several Regulations Governing Patent
Applications (Draft for Comments)
国知局发布《关于规范申请专利行为的若干规定修改草案（征求意见稿）》
Date: 2021-05-06
Recently, the CNIPA published the "Draft Amendments to
Certain Provisions Regarding the Regulation of Patent Applications
(Draft for Soliciting Comments)" (the
"Draft") for public comments until 6
June 2021.
The Draft supplements and improves the definition of abnormal
patent applications and further clarifies the types of abnormal
patent applications, including:
- Simultaneously or successively submitting multiple patent
applications that are obviously the same in terms of inventive
content, or are essentially formed by a simple combination of
different inventive features or elements;
