China Announces Long-Awaited—and Significant—Updates to Intellectual Property Protections
By EsqSocial Corporation 18/12/20
For months, global patent practitioners have been expecting China to announce sweeping, significant changes to the nation’s system of intellectual property laws—and they were not disappointed. On Oct. 17, the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress approved a comprehensive slate of intellectual property law reforms that will impact protection of industrial designs, pharmaceutical patent rights, and patent infringement enforcement. The revisions, which are the first significant intellectual...
By: Womble Bond Dickinson