According to news on June 13, Apple may be forced to change the name of its new mixed reality headset in China unless it can come to an agreement with Huawei, which already owns the "Vision Pro" trademark...

The growth settled for a while between 2012 and 2017, but quickly advanced at speed in the past two years.

China has applied for 4,435 blockchain patents so far, accounting for about half of the world's total, according to an industry report released in late September.

France is a country China has the most extensive GI cooperation program with and gives protection to the largest number of GIs.

The total number of invention patents filed in China in 2022 reached 4.21 million, of which 3.28 million were held by inventors from mainland China, officials from the CNIPA said at a press conference recently.

News released on Jan 6, the latest data from the CNIPA reveals that China currently leads the world in the number of patent applications for solar cells, with a total of 126,400 applications.

With 58,990 PCT applications filed last year, China overtook the US, which filed 57,840 applications that year, as the biggest user of the PCT system.

Shen said that China and France have maintained close cooperation in geographical indication (GI) for a long time.

Lu Pengqi, Deputy Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), recently met in Beijing with Jerome Maironi, Senior Vice President of the Switzerland-based Garrett Motion.

On June 10, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, in cooperation with Roland Berger, released its European Business in China Business Confidence Survey 2020.

China has approved the establishment of three more intellectual property rights protection centers in Northeast China.

Online applications logged at 1,885, accounting for 83.44%.

A total of 565,000 applications for invention patents were handled in China in the first half of 2017, statistics from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) showed.

China plans to restructure the State Intellectual Property Office to strengthen protection of intellectual property rights, according to the State institutional reform plan of the State Council.

China's Supreme People's Court has issued an amended judicial interpretation expanding copyright protection to cover digital media alongside traditional print formats.

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has announced that starting January 1, 2026, all patent-related documents submitted electronically must be in XML format.

On June 18, China's anti-monopoly authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), released the "Annual Report on China's Anti-Monopoly Enforcement.

According to the Report, China's IP utilization index reached 234.8 in 2018, an increase of 28.5% over 2017.

China's Ministry of Science and Technology has said it will spend more effort to foster the transfer of high-quality intellectual properties into market-end products.

From April 20 to 26, 2026, China will hold its annual National Intellectual Property Publicity Week. The event is organized by a committee led by three national agencies...