{"id":23943,"date":"2018-10-25T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=23943"},"modified":"2018-10-26T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:23:31","slug":"design-patents-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/design-patents-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Patents in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This webinar will provide a thorough grounding in the law and practice of obtaining and enforcing design patents in China. \u00a0Experts say design patents are underutilized in China by foreign companies, to their detriment. \u00a0Chinese companies certainly act as if Chinese design patents can give them an edge. \u00a0More than one-third of all patent applications filed in China by domestic entities are for design patents, compared to just 10 percent of all patent applications filed in China by foreign applicants.<\/p>\n<p>As many a foreign company has discovered, if it doesn\u2019t register its designs in China, there\u2019s a good chance a Chinese company will \u2014 and the foreign company may be forced to pay a license for use of its own design. \u00a0U.S., Japanese, and Korean automakers have repeatedly accused Chinese companies of stealing their designs, only to find the accused patented the designs first in China. \u00a0Last year, Apple faced a widely reported ban on sales of its iPhone 6 in China after an administrative agency found that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus infringed on the design patent rights of a Chinese manufacturer, Shenzhen Baili. \u00a0The Beijing Intellectual Property Court later revoked the ban and Apple\u2019s sales continue unimpeded.<\/p>\n<p>Our panel \u2013 a leader of the USPTO\u2019s \u201cChina team\u201d who was previously a law-firm patent litigator, a Beijing-based lawyer who specializes in design patents, and an in-house patent counsel at a major multinational \u2013 will discuss the role of different Chinese government entities and regulators in infringement disputes. \u00a0Other issues they will discuss include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ramifications of China\u2019s refusal to recognize partial designs.<\/li>\n<li>Differences between U.S. law and Chinese law with respect to protection against unauthorized use of a product protected by a design patent.<\/li>\n<li>Special concerns in patenting GUIs (graphical user interfaces).<\/li>\n<li>The interaction of utility patents and design patents in China, differences in the jurisprudence applicable to each, and whether it is possible to obtain both types of protection on one product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" paraid=\"1844573305\" paraeid=\"{a284d587-8d69-4629-b473-912834e5d717}{222}\">Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"45\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Bart Fisher<\/span><\/span><span xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">, <i>Caterpillar Inc.<\/i><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"45\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" role=\"listitem\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">Biqing Huang, <i>CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"45\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" role=\"listitem\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Elaine Wu, <em>U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This webinar will provide a thorough grounding in the law  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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