20 Oct 2020
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On Saturday, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee approved the fourth round of revisions to the Patent Law.
The revised law will take effect on June 1, 2021.
Some context: The Patent Law was first enacted in 1984 and has gone through three previous rounds of revisions, in 19...
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