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Prosecution History Estoppel
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2023-05-29 |
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Xin SHEN Chengsheng GUO Chinese Patent Attorney I Legal Basis In order to balance the interest of the patentee and the interest of the social public, the patent system provides the doctrine of estoppel to prevent the patentee from presentin |
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On Drafting of Patent Application with Parameter-defined Product Claims
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2022-06-28 |
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Yuning WANG Chinese Patent Attorney In a patent application, out of the purposes such as to distinguish the claimed product from a prior product and/or to strive for a reasonable scope of protection, the applicant may use parameter-defined |
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Brief Discussion on Impacts of Amendments to Guidelines for Patent Examination on Supplementary Experimental Data and Inv
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2022-02-15 |
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He LIU Chinese patent attorney Chemistry Biotechnology Department Linda Liu Partners On December 14, 2020, the China National Intellectual Property Administration released Announcement about Amendments to the Guidelines for Patent Examinati |
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COPING STRATEGIES FOR TECHNICAL FEATURES IDENTIFIED AS “COMMON KNOWLEDGE” IN NOTIFICATIONS OF OFFICE ACTION
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2022-02-15 |
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Chunqiao WANG Patent Attorney Machinery Department Linda Liu Partners During substantive examination of an application for patent in China, it is nothing new that an examiner identifies some technical features in a claim as common knowledge |
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Brief Analysis on the Amendment to “Obvious Errors”
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2022-02-16 |
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Yinhuan BAI(Ms.) Chinese patent attorney Mechanical Engineering Department Linda Liu Partners Imagineascenarioin which an obvious error was unexpectedly found, after carefully polishing the application documents for weeks or even months. It |
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Difference in the criteria for determining priority right and novelty Using a judicial case as an example
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2022-02-16 |
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Meng YU Chinese patent attorney Chemistry Biotechnology Department Linda Liu Partners It is common to determine novelty in practice. However, there are only a few cases where there is a need to determine whether the claim to priority right |
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Discussion on Drafting of Patent Applications Involving Algorithms of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Sub
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2022-02-16 |
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Wendy ZHANG Chinese patent attorney Electrical Engineering Department Linda Liu Partners The CNIPA issued the latest amended Guidelines for Patent Examination on December 31, 2019 which was to take effect as of February 1, 2020. In the amen |
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Introduction to the Amendment to the Guidelines for Patent Examination in China—Design
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2022-02-16 |
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Xue WANG Chinese Patent Attorney Mechanical Engineering Department Linda Liu Partners On September 23, 2019, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as CNIPA) issued Announcement No.328, announcing t |
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Leveraging Chinese Patent Practice for Strategic Patent Procurement
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2022-02-16 |
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Nancy SONG Chinese Patent Attorney Electrical Engineering Department Linda Liu Partners Strategic patent portfolio management requires a portfolio manager to expedite prosecution for quicker allowance for some patent applications, and to ex |
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Stick to the Essential Inventive Concept amongst Deceiving Superficies --A primary guide to making a response to office o
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2022-02-16 |
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Linda Liu Partners I . Key Link Easily Overlooked Generally speaking, the RD process of an inventor includes the following steps: (1) discovering and raising a problem; (2) determining a goal; (3) proposing a solution, e.g., new concept, id |