In legal terms, contributory infringement of a patent right means an act of deliberately inducing or encouraging a third party to infringe a patent, while the act as such does not directly infringe the patent.

S Sam Li and Honghui Hu of Wan Hui Da – Peksung IP Group explain three important Supreme Court cases on pharmaceutical patents.

The plaintiff Ferrero International S.A. (Ferrero), which was established in 1946 in Italy, has produced and launched the "FERRERO ROCHER" chocolates since 1982.

On November 30, 2011, MICROSOFT CORPORATION (MICROSOFT) filed an application for international registration of the trademark "POWERPOINT" covering computer services...

The Patent Reexamination Board (hereinafter referred to as the PRB) is an organization under the SIPO (State Intellectual Property Office) of China.

In a recent case, the Beijing High Court applied both Articles 13.1 and 31 of the 2001 Trademark Law to grant full protection over an unregistered trademark and clarified the assessment criteria...

The protection of industrial designs in China is provided by the patent law and the industrial designs are called design patents, like in the US.

Regulations on the Prohibition of Conduct Eliminating or Restricting Competition by Abusing Intellectual Property Rights took effect on August 1, 2015.

The prosecution of computer program patent applications in China has been difficult.

China’s Patent Law introduces a new stipulation that "no patent right shall be granted for any invention-creation which is completed on the basis of genetic resources..."

In China, chemical and biochemical products such as pharmaceutical compounds, proteins and nucleic acids are patentable.

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

The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has been the owner, since January 1, 1990 of the registered trademark --"玉兰" ( "Yulan" ) and July 1, 1999 of the registered trademark...

On April 1, 2015, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) published a new draft of the fourth amendment to the Chinese patent law, for solicitation of public comments.

China implemented the amendments to the Patent Law in October 2009 and the amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law in February 2010.

Invention, utility model and design are the three types of patent rights available in China.

On December 2, 2015, the Legal Affairs Office of the State Council of China published a new draft of the fourth amendment to the Chinese patent law which was sent to the State Council to review, for solicitation of public comments.

Peksung Intellectual Property assesses the advantages offered to applicants by new provisions relating to the utility model system.

Customs enforcement of intellectual property rights in China refers to the measures taken by Chinese customs according to the law preventing the import and export of infringing goods.

The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board and the Beijing Intellectual Property Court invalidated a copycat of an unregistered French GI in China by invoking the Article 10.2...