Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law (April 2021)
The Supreme Court issued a judicial interpretation of punitive damages for intellectual property rights effective from March 3 （March 2021）
China continues to rank first in the world in terms of PCT international patent applications (March 2021)
The Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court accepted 5,121 cases in two years, with a settlement rate of 82% (February 2021)
IP5 Announces 2019 Statistical Report (January 2021)
CNIPA Releases 2020 Data (January 2021)
The newly revised "Patent Examination Guidelines" shall come into force on January 15, 2021 (December 2020)
Supreme People's Court issues Certain Provisions on Evidence in Civil Intellectual Property Litigation (November 2020)
The newly amended Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China shall come into force on June 1, 2021 (November 2020)
Proposed Amendments to the Implementing Rules of the Patent Law (Draft for Public Comments) (November 2020)
