In September 2014, the Gao Lulin Foundation created the “Gao Lulin Intellectual Property Law Scholarship” at Tsinghua University School of Law to encourage the students to learn and research intellectual property law. The Gao Lulin Foundation is sponsored by Beijing East IP with Chairman Dr. Lulin GAO’s name to create scholarship funds.

On September 18, 2014, General Manager Dr. Xiaodong LI of Beijing East IP was invited to give a presentation at China Electronics Standardization Institute. The presentation was based on the association between standardization and patent.

2014, setup an exhibition booth, and exchanged views with intellectual property professionals from various fields about the last domestic and international patent information development and products. Moreover, many corporations were very interested in Beijing East IP’s Patent Analysis Department’s services.

From 2013 – 2014, Beijing East IP organized our own professionals to edit theChina Patent Case Review 2014 and the China Trademark Review 2014. These two books are written in English to facilitate and promote foreign corporation and law firms to better understand China patent and trademark examinations and practices.

In April 2014, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) announced the list for China Courts 2013 Top 10 Innovative IP Cases. These Top 10 Innovative IP Cases were selected from over one hundred thousand (100,000) decisions of nationwide courts in China rendered in 2013, which have significant and innovative contribution to application of the laws and regulations.

Mr. Jason WANG, partner at Beijing East IP Law Firm, published the article titled “Trademark Distinctiveness Affects the Determination on Bad Faith Filing” on the China Trademark magazine (Issue 8, 2014). The China Trademark magazine is a monthly magazine supervised under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC, who oversees Chinese Trademark Office and Trademark Review and Adjudication Board) and hosted by the China Trademark Association.

On August 15, 2014, Manager of the Electric Department patent attorney Qiang LIN was invited to JETRO’s Beijing representative office to give a presentation on “The Best Practice of Software Patent in China.” Based on his comparative research on various country’s patent law, Attorney Lin presented a detailed introduction for software patent protection history, current practices, latest case reviews, and heated debated topics based on his own experiences on representing multinationals’ cases. All of JETRO’s Beijing representative office’s patent professionals attended this seminar, occupied the entire conference room.

This article is the English translation for Mr. Wang’s article in Chinese published on China Trademark magazine (Issue 6, 2012) and Trademark Communications magazine (Issue 5, 2012).　China Trademarkmagazine is sponsored by China Trademark Association under supervision of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) overseeing the Chinese Trademark Office (CTMO) and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB).　Trademark Communications magazine is the internal magazine of the CTMO.

Business method application cannot be granted a patent right before the SIPO, unless you are very careful at the very beginning of drafting an application, fully understand the special tactics during prosecution of the application, and foresee the direction SIPO is heading regarding examination of a business method application.

The SIPO is proposing to amend relevant regulations in the Patent Examination Guideline to protect partial design/UI with design patent.