Changes to Patent Law tightens requirements

September 10, 2008 | BY

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The National People's Congress has announced the first reading of the proposed amendments to the Patent Law《中华人民共和国专利法》. The…

The National People's Congress has announced the first reading of the proposed amendments to the Patent Law《中华人民共和国专利法》.

The draft amendments have raised the threshold for invention applications and placed harsher penalties for breach of piracy acts.

Shirley Kwok, partner at Bird & Bird, said that the amendments appear to be relatively soft in their approach and they “primarily codify a lot of well-accepted existing practices.”

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