The 12th China IP International Annual Forum and 2022 Annual Conference of In-house IP Managers in China, sponsored by China IP Magazine, were held successfully in Beijing on September 24, 2022. Jiaquan IP Law was awarded the 2021 Outstanding IP Service Teams in China. This is the sixth consecutive year that Jiaquan has won this award.

Recently, the failure of Bilibili in the litigation against its trademark Bilibili triggered a heated debate among netizens. Bilibili (aka “Station B”) is a well-known video-sharing platform founded and owned by Shanghai Huandian Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("Shanghai Huandian"). After the development of more than ten years, Station B now covers more than 7000 multicultural communities of various interest circles.

For those friends and IP colleagues who read my posts before, you guys might aware of how much I like to discuss interesting IP topics. One of my dear friends, Mr. Michael Stein (I will connect this post to your LinkedIn account by then), brought out a question the other day – for a Hong Kong applicant, how many methods are there to file a PCT international application?

By Mr. Allen Zhou at Jiaquan IP & Law, CN;
Ms. Sejal Rajan at Grant Attorneys, US

In China, a patent invalidation proceeding is often employed in patent infringement dispute cases. If the party accused of infringement wants to make a non-infringement defense, it can either argue that its product does not fall into the scope of the cited patent, or prove that the patent is invalid through the invalidation proceeding.

The year 2021 became the first year of metaverse, and the concept of “metaverse” has soared in popularity since then. All types of industries started to add “metaverse” to their commercial planning and trademark layout, and applying for trademarks containing the term “metaverse” to seize business opportunities.

Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), a well-known international IP publication, recently released its Patent 1000 2022 ranking. In this ranking, Jiaquan IP Law was featured as “silver band of prosecution" and “bronze band of litigation" due to its comprehensive strength. Jiaquan’s advance from “bronze band of prosecution” in 2021 to “silver band of prosecution” in 2022 not only signified IAM’s recognition of Jiaquan’s achievements over the last year, but also reflected Jianquan’s consistent improvement in its domestic and overseas business.

I recently received an inquiry from a US colleague about filing a PCT international application with CNIPA as the RO without a priority basis. I have rarely discussed this issue with my foreign associates in the past because although CNIPA is one of the PCT receiving offices, the applicant must meet the below conditions. And the fact is most of the foreign inbound cases we handle here are with foreign applicants.

With years of experience and excellence in the field of #IP, Mr. Tan Yingqiang (Jacky Tan), partner of Jiaquan, was named as one of the "Top 100 China IP Experts" this year out of so many amazing peers.

On Sunday morning, when I was crouching on the sofa with a coffee and watching some TV shows, my friend (Kurt Saunders) sent me this captioned question via Whatsapp.