In addition, sometimes pre-filing amendments are necessary to avoid receiving rectification notice and to reduce attorney fees.

Under the principle of "One Country Two Systems" by the Chinese government, Hong Kong (HK) is politically part of China, but is judicially independent for patent protection.

In the patent practice in China, conflicting application system is an important system that needs to be considered when evaluating novelty of a patent application.

With the strengthening of intellectual property protection in China, the number of patent infringement lawsuits is increasing.

The plaintiff, Beijing Watchdata Group (hereafter Watchdata), filed a suit with the Beijing IP Court in February of 2015, alleging the defendant, Hengbao Co., Ltd. (hereafter Hengbao) of infringing its invention Patent No. 2005101055021 titled 'A Physical Authentication Method and an Electronic Device'.

Judgment statistics: In 2020, a total of 2787 cases were concluded by the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court.

Among them, the reasonable multiple of royalties is normally used only if the parties can't prove (1) the actual loss of the patentee and the benefit obtained by the infringer.

Among the IP5 Offices, China is the last one to introduce partial design system next year.

TiKeDi Center is a subsidiary company of Shanghai Cuihui, which was the exclusive agency in China of the German company TKD Kabel GmbH (hereafter referred to as TKD Kabel).

This practice has been adopted by SIPO for some years.

It was known for many years that the Chinese government provided policies for subsidizing patent applications.

China has a strict regulation of foreign patent filings for inventions that are completed in the territory of China. If inventions were created in China, patent applicants...

In October of 2020, the new Chinese Patent Law was finally announced and published.

In China, it is not required to record a patent license for validating the license agreement.

Although China National Intellectual Property Administration has taken strict measures to crack down abnormal patent filings since 2019, there are still plenty of patent applications that were filed for pursuing the quantity index rather than quality index.

After 12 years' waiting, the 4th version of the Chinese Patent Law with an aim of further motivating innovations and improving the mechanism for cracking down patent infringements was finally passed by China's top legislature on October 17, 2020.

According to the Chinese Patent Law and practice, means-plus-function claims are interpreted differently at the time of Chinese patent prosecution and Chinese patent litigation.

"Intentional" in this Guideline means that an infringer knows, subjectively, that his action will cause an infringement result, but hopes or allows such result to happen.

Evidence for determining illegal profits is generally withheld by the infringer and difficult to obtain in China, as the infringer would normally refuse to provide such evidence so that it can avoid bearing damages and infringing liabilities.

From July to August 2020, 55 patent infringement lawsuits in the semiconductor field were filed, and 60 US patents were involved.