Introduction To The Recent Draft Amendments To Patent Law

On June 20, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) published its 2020 version of draft amendments to Patent Law (2020 version) for comment. Millions of opinions have been collected in the past 15 months since the last version of draft amendment (2019 version). What are the main changes in this draft and what are the reasons behind these changes?

1. Compensation for the protection period of patent right

The 2020 version draft proposed compensation for the protection period of patent right. Its Article 42 includes two aspects: compensation for unreasonable delay of prosecution progress and compensation for the administrative examination for the new drug.