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The Chinese government’s last Five-Year Plan supported turning Hong Kong into a regional IP trading centre. Two years on, Edward Chatterton and Wilson Lung of DLA Piper discuss the deepening cooperation between Mainland China and Hong Kong.
Expedited examination of patent applications
In a recent change, permanent residents, companies and other legal entities and organisations in Hong Kong can now apply to the representative offices of the China National Intellectual Property Administration in Guangzhou or Shenzhen for expedited examination of qualified patent applications filed in China. To qualify for expedited examination, a patent application must be:
In 2021, the average examination time for an invention patent application in China was 18.5 months. Although this timeframe is similar to other important jurisdictions, the expedited timeframe should help to reduce the examination time by around six months, facilitating the faster protection of inventions, enabling owners to commercialise them more efficiently and, it is hoped, incentivising innovation.
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Hong Kong, China, Five-Year plan, Mainland Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance, People's Bank of China