Fourth Amendment to China’s Patent Law: The Big Picture of China’s New Patent Law
On June 1st, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to China’s Patent Law will take effect. The amendments will improve China’s patent protection while also making the IP system more flexible and sophisticated. The first three changes to the Patent Law have essentially maintained the pattern of once every eight years since the creation of the patent system in China. This fourth amendment took a little longer to ratify, coming 12 years after the previous one. China reached a new stage of [...]