Invalidation of Atorvastatin Patent Highlights Complex Chinese Patent Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 883-886
Author(s):  
Feng-Chi Chen ◽  
Kuo-Liang Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Patent Law ◽  
Chinese Patent

How Fair is Patent Litigation in China? Evidence from the Beijing Courts

2019 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Chenguo Zhang ◽  
Jin Cao
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Patent Litigation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Chinese Patent ◽  
The Right ◽  
Trade Partners

AbstractBy conducting field research and analysing judgments delivered in Beijing courts from 2004 to 2011, we find that the popular notion held by China's trade partners of the inadequacy of intellectual property protection is only partly supported by the empirical evidence. The likelihood of winning lawsuits is higher for foreign than domestic plaintiffs and the extremely low damages ruled by Chinese courts are due to particular causes. Courts lack consistent methods to calculate incurred losses in intellectual property right (IPR) infringements and consequently routinely apply the statutory damages whose upper limit is restricted by legislation. Efforts by Chinese legislators to enhance compensation by lifting the upper limit of awardable statutory damages in the Third Amendment of Chinese Patent Law (2008) did not seem to have an effect on our sample. Chinese policymakers should instead focus on the cause of the issue by providing more implementable guidelines for courts to calculate losses. Courts need to develop applicable conventions for calculating damages, based on objective criteria of how much compensation ought to be payable, which is also the basis of calculating reasonable statutory damages. Thus, the new provision of the “right of information” on pirated goods proposed by the ongoing Fourth Amendment provides a significant weapon to combat counterfeiting.

scholarly journals Awarded with Economic Growth, from Weak to Strong Patent Legislation: Legal Study with Regard to China

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Shaghayegh Haji Bagher Naeeni
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Patent System ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Critical Legal Study ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
Chinese Patent

This paper provides a critical legal study on evaluation of patent system in China from the year1980, which is known as the beginning of Chinese modern intellectual property law including patent law till 2016 that China achieved third place in Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) internationally for the highest patent applications according to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).  Moreover, researcher will go through few important push factors for Chinese patent legislator who developed stronger Patent law to attract more national and international inventors for investing in Chinese market without hesitation of their patent rights being infringed due to weak legislation. In other words, how China realized that being in the era of globalization for improving economic growth, it should consider at least minimum international standards in its own patent legislation. Hence, the method used in this paper will be purely a doctrine method, because the researcher will be conducting the critical legal study on mentioned aspects, which involves collecting of data from primary and secondary sources. The process involved in this research is a collative process. However, still there is room for improvement in current Chinese patent system, which will be discussed in this paper. All in all, the researcher concluded that concept of globalization is undeniable in national as well as the international market in order to have a reasonable economic growth for the same reason China had considered having stronger patent legislation in order to save its position in the market and also to increase its own rate of economic growth. On the other hand, the paper concludes by putting forward suggestions for modifying Chinese patent system.  

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