On June 29, 2026, the Supreme People's Court rendered a final judgment in the case of dispute over infringement of an invention patent, holding that the accused infringing technical solution did not fall within the scope of protection of the patent-in-sui
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme People's Court issued its final judgment in a high-profile invention patent infringement case involving Apple Pay functionality. The Court held that the accused technical solution did not fall within the scope of protection o
Case Summary Guangzhou Kangmou Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Kangmou Company) and Guangzhou Baimou Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Baimou Company) sold product packaging boxes that were similar to the artistic works for which Shenzhen Jianmou Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Jianm
Features a and b did not contribute to inventiveness, and the patentee did not obtain any benefit based on them. The narrowing statements made by the patentee regarding features a and b during the grant and validation stages do not constitute a disclaimer
For assessing the inventiveness, the technical solution of claims shall be taken into consideration as a whole, rather than individual technical features. The “whole” perspective means that we shall consider not only the technical solution itself, but als
For a long time, there have been numerous acts of bad-faith trademark squatting in China. These acts are not for the purpose of use but involve registering trademarks that market entities actually engaged in production and operation have not registered in