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Proposed Legislation

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Decision of the Supreme People's Court on the Amendment to the Regulations of the Supreme
People's Court Concerning Applicable Laws for Trialing Patent Dispute Cases adopted[2]

SIPO seeks public opinions on the Revision Draft of the Measures for Patent Administrative Law
Enforcement Operations (Draft for Comments)

Adopted Legislation [1][1]

Decision of the Supreme People's Court on Revising the Several Provisions of theSupreme People's Court on the Application of Law in the Hearing of Cases of Patent
Disputes issued
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Proposed Legislation[1]

Decision of the Supreme People's Court on the Amendment to the Regulations of theSupreme People's Court Concerning Applicable Laws for Trialing Patent Dispute Cases adopted[Supreme People's Court]...The Decision of the Supreme People's Court on the Amendment to the Regulations of the Supreme
People's Court Concerning Applicable Laws for Trialing Patent Dispute Cases was deliberated andpassed during a plenary session of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court convened bychief justice of the Supreme People's Court, ZHOU Qiang, on Jan 19, 2015. Certain clauses of theRegulations of the Supreme People's Court on Matters Concerning Civil Trial Supervision, Retrial andRemand In Pursuance with Applicable Directives were also deliberated during the meeting.

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SIPO seeks public opinions on the Revision Draft of the Measures for PatentAdministrative Law Enforcement Operations (Draft for Comments)[State Intellectual Property Office ]...On January 27, the State Intellectual Property Office issued a notice to solicit public opinions on theRevision Draft of the Measures for Patent Administrative Law Enforcement Operations (Draft for1/3

Comments) until March 15, 2015. Major revisions this time include: making clear the emphasis on"strengthening the building of patent administrative law enforcement force, tightening the qualification
management of administrative law enforcement officers, and effectively implementing theadministrative law enforcement accountability system" (Article 4); requiring that "departments
responsible for managing patent work shall strengthen information technology development andinformation sharing for administrative law enforcement (Article 9), and make explicit provisions on
promptly disclosing administrative decisions and publishing law enforcement information (Article 46);
further shortening and clarifying relevant time periods for handling patent infringement disputes(Articles 14, 21, 23, 24 and 28); specifying that departments responsible for managing patent work shallstrengthen administrative law enforcement in e-commerce fields, mediate and handle patent
infringement disputes on e-commerce platforms in an expedited manner, and promptly investigate andpunish acts of counterfeiting patents (Article 8); and, explicitly prescribing that departments
responsible for managing patent work may notify e-commerce platforms to delete, block or take othermeasures against web pages containing information on products suspected of infringing upon or
counterfeiting patents, so as to stop patent infringement and counterfeiting activities in a timely manner(Articles 43 and 45).
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Adopted Legislation[1]

Decision of the Supreme People's Court on Revising the Several Provisions of the Supreme

People's Court on the Application of Law in the Hearing of Cases of Patent Disputes issued[Chinacourt.org]...The Decision of the Supreme People's Court on Revising the Several Provisions of the Supreme
People's Court on the Application of Law in the Hearing of Cases of Patent Disputes was issued onJan.29 and shall take effect on Feb 1, 2015.
The revision involves 10 articles, including Article 17 shall be revised to read: for the purpose ofParagraph 1 of Article 59 of the Patent Law, "the scope of protection of an invention patent or utility
model patent shall be subject to its claims of rights, and relevant written descriptions and attacheddrawings may be used to interpret the contents of such claims" shall mean that the scope of protection ofa patent shall be subject to the scope determined by all the technical features recorded in the claims ofrights, including the scope determined by the features equivalent to such technical features. Equivalentfeatures shall refer to the features that adopt substantially the same means as the technical features
recorded to achieve substantially the same functions and effects, and that can be contemplated without
creative work by ordinary technical personnel in the relevant field when the accused infringing
activities occur."
Article 21 shall be revised to read: where the loss suffered by a patentee or the gains obtained by an
infringer are difficult to determine, the competent people's court may, if patent licensing fees can bereferred to, reasonably determine the amount of compensation according to factors such as the patenttype, the nature and circumstances of the infringement, and the nature, scope and duration of patent
licensing, and by referring to a certain multiple of the patent licensing fees; in the absence of any patent
licensing fee as reference or where patent licensing fees are manifestly unreasonable, the competentpeople's court may determine the amount of compensation according to factors such as the patent type,
and the nature and circumstances of the infringement, and pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 65 of the
Patent Law.

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