Protecting your inventions in China: The China Patent Law Guide

• Overview
• Patent office
• Type of patents
• Unpatentable subject matters
• Engaging patent agency
• Foreign filing license
• Patent abuse and monopoly
• Patentability requirement
• Patent application documents
• Claiming priority
• Patent unity requirement
• Invention and utility model filed simultaneously
• Withdrawing patent application
• Acceptance of patent application documents
• Divisional application
• Preliminary examination
• Early publication
• Substantive examination
• Amending patent application
• Third party opinion
• Patent grant
• Patent rejection
• Patent term
• Patent Reexamination

Patent infringement

• Patent infringement behavior
• Interpretation of patent protection scope
• Dual track protection
• Reverse burden of proof for process patents
• Patent evaluation report for utility model and design
• Determining patent infringement
• Determining design infringement
• Contributory infringement
• Damage awards and cost recovery
• Preliminary measures
• Provisional protection of published patents
• Statutory limitation period for patent infringement litigation
• Patent linkage system for pharmaceutical patents
• Exceptions to patent infringement
• Prior art defense
• Exemption from damages
• Patent counterfeiting

Patent invalidation

• The Patent Reexamination Board
• Time limit and standing for filing a patent invalidation
• Grounds for patent invalidation
• Procedure of patent invalidation
• Amending the patent during the invalidation proceeding
• Oral hearing
• Withdrawing a patent invalidation request
• Non bis in idem
• Remedy after a patent invalidation decision
• Effect of an invalidation decision
• Scope of retroactive effect of an invalidation decision

Patent entitlement

• Service inventions
• Non-service inventions
• Commissioned inventions
• Joint inventions

Inventorship and remuneration

• Inventorship
• Remuneration for inventors of service Inventions

Patent assignment

• Right to assign
• Assignment contract
• Registration of the assignment

Patent license

• Right to license
• Manner of license
• Open license
• Compulsory license
• No exploitation of patent or monopolistic behavior
• National emergency or public interest
• Public health
• Fundamental technology
• Granting compulsory license
• No exclusive or sub-license right
• Reasonable royalty
• Legal remedy