On May 28th, 2020, the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress voted to adopt the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, declaring that China has entered the "era of civil code", which is the first law named after the "code" in the history of new China, creating a precedent for the codification and legislation of China's code. In this legislation, because the rel

As the number of patent applications in China increases year by year, the transformation of technological achievements becomes increasingly prominent. Let the patent right no longer sleep, become the voice of many representatives of the NPC and CPPCC. Establish a Unified IP Trading Market Deputy to the National People's Congress, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Jilin Banking And Securit

In conjunction with the World Intellectual Property Day 2020 celebrations themed “Innovate for a Green Future”, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) will offer a pilot programme to accelerate grants of patent applications in all technology fields to just six months, starting from 4 May 2020. The programme – the SG Patent Fast Track - is the world’s fastest application-to-grant

On 15 April, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) unveiled a new online dashboard that allows member state representatives and other stakeholders to monitor the Organization's operations during the Covid-19 pandemic. The new, web-based and publicly available, WIPO Crisis Management Dashboard will provide a view of the evolution of WIPO's global intellectual property (IP) services and its financ

Recently, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the UAE Ministry of Economy announced that it will further reduce some official fees related to trademark affairs. In fact, in July 2019, the UAE has already slashed some trademark official fees, for example by reducing the cost of registering a trademark in the country from 10,000 Dirham (about USD2,723) to 6,700 Dirham (about USD1,825). The reduction of the official f

In response to the increasingly severe global epidemic situation, the following countries and regions have taken corresponding emergency measures to ensure the normal operation of IP work. EUIPO All time limits expiring between 9 March 2020 and 30 April 2020, that affect all parties before the Office, extended to 1 May 2020. This includes statutory deadlines such as the deadline to oppose a third party trad