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The growth of Internet-intensive and other emerging industries in China has posed new challenges to governance of IP, to which the Chinese state has proactively responded. The Chinese state has recently attempted to regulate corresponding business models and other commercial activities in a way that ensures healthy competition and safeguards the public interests while also not restricting innovation.
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About the Chinese government’s attitude to offer better IP protection to emerging business models and new technologies, see for example CPC Central Committee and State Council, ‘Several Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Institutional Mechanisms and Accelerating the Implementation of Innovation-driven Development Strategies’ (2015) No. 8 [中共中央国务院, ‘关于深化体制机制改革加快实施创新驱动发展战略的若干意见’ (中发 〔2015〕 8 号)]; State Council, ‘Several Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Powerful Intellectual Property Rights under the New Situation’ (2015) No. 71 (国务院, ‘关于新形势 下加快智慧财产权强国建设的若干意见’ [国发 〔2015〕 71 号)]; SIPO, ‘Explanation of the Draft Revision of Patent Examination Guideline’ (2016) (国家知识产权局, ‘国家知识产权局关于 《专利审查指南修改草案 (征求意见稿)》 的说明’ (2016)).
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Qihu 360 claimed that defendant’s software infringes on its three GUI design patents. See [2016] Qihu 360 v. Jiang Ming Technology, 2016 (北京奇虎科技有限公司, 奇智软体(北京)有限公司诉北京江民新科技有限公司侵犯外观设计专利案, (2016) 京73民初276号).
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Decision of Patent Reexamination Board, Decision No. 31958 (2017) (国家知识产权局专利复审委员会, 217年第31958号专利无效审查决定).
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There are yet other ways in which China’s patent regime offers more appropriability for innovations than the regimes in some developed countries. For example, in practice, important biotechnology and software inventions are patentable in China but not in the US (Madigan and Mossoff 2017).
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Before the end of 2017, the granting rate of BMP was 12% and most of the BMP applications were denied due to the lack of inventiveness.
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SIPO prescribed a non-exhaustive list of technical fields which are considered to be China’s key technical fields, including environmental protection, energy conservation, new-generation IT, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials, new energy vehicles, and so on.
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Article 69 (5) of Patent Law of PRC states: “The following shall not be deemed to be a patent infringement: (5) any person who produces, uses, or imports patented drugs or patented medical apparatus and instruments, for the purpose of providing information required for administrative examination and approval, or any other person who imports patented drugs or patented medical apparatus and instruments especially for that person”.
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This section is repeated verbatim in Chap. 4.
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Prud’homme, D., Zhang, T. (2019). New/Experimental IP-Related Measures. In: China’s Intellectual Property Regime for Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10404-7_5
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