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Steve Jobs died the month that the latest Nobel Prize winners were announced. The coincidence lends itself to speculation about inevitability.
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2011 commemorates the 10th anniversary of China's accession to the WTO. On December 11th, 2001, the WTO first opened its doors to China and accepted China as its 143rd member
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The journalists of China IP often come across staff members of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in various activities concerning Japanese enterprises
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Q1: Can printed flat works be protected under the Patent Law as a design?
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Are we able to stop our rivals from obtaining authorization of a patent application that we regard as having substantial defects during the substantive examination, given the fact that the rival companies hane already published their patent applications?
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Patent retrieval is necessary during R&D, in order not to infringe upon others’ patents. We have to know both ourselves and our competitors so as not to improperly take another piece of the pie.
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An expired patented product can no longer be protected. Since an expired patent product has obtained patent rights and has been made public, re-submitted patent application does not possess novelty.
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There is generally no consideration exchanged between employee and employer for keeping trade secrets.
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“Contact” means that the right holder has the evidence to prove that the accused infringer can obtain the trade secret with certain access.
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Trade secrets can be divided into technical information and business information. Technical information generally refers to information independently developed by enterprises.
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