Published: November 6, 2017
Publisher: Lexology
“On April 20 2017 the Beijing High People’s Court issued the newly revised Guidelines for Patent Infringement Determination in Chinese, English and Japanese. The guidelines include sections on:
- determining the scope of protection of inventions and utility models;
- determining what constitutes invention and utility model infringement;
- determining the scope of protection of design patents;
- determining what constitutes design patent infringement;
- determining patent infringement activities; and
- defending against patent infringement.
In addition to the comprehensive rules on the above matters, the guidelines also provide rules on some much-discussed issues for the first time, such as standard-essential patents and graphical user interface (GUI) designs.”