Third Party Observations – Early Prevention Of Patent Infringement Risk

For an innovative enterprise, continuously launching new products is an important way to get a return on their prior investment in research and development. To continuously develop and market new products and get profits therefrom, and also to reduce research and development costs while avoiding patent infringement risk, an enterprise should pay close attention to its competitors, the leading players and the intellectual property development trend in the relevant industries or at least in the related technical field, and then take corresponding intellectual property protection measures if necessary.   

Third party observation is a precautionary measure which enterprises may take to reduce or avoid patent infringement risk. Any enterprise, if finding that a pending invention patent application may hinder their products from entering into market, may submit third party observations with the China Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and point out the issues of