New－edition Patent Certificate to be adopted in China

    News for concerning departments of SIPO said that a new-edition patent certificate would be applied since January 1, 2006. The new-edition patent certificate is the third edition in Chinese patent system. According to SIPO’s introduction, the new edition has improved a lot, compared with the former two editions. Thus it manifests more fully the spirit of people first and for the patentees. The old-editions separate patent certificate from patent authorization writ, which make it inconvenient for the patentees to draw their certificates or transfer their rights, while the new-edition binds the two writs together, which could prevent the inconvenience from receiving patent certificate first and patent authorization writ second, and facilitate the patentees to transfer their rights. This innovation also designed and published separate edition of patent certificate for the first time. It is said that the new-edition patent certificate adopts A4 layout and check paper for its leaves.
    News also said, to meet international norms, A4 anti-counterfeit paper would be applied into the new edition.

January 4, 2006                             Source：IP Newspaper

Innovation Ceremony of CCTV2005 Announced 26 Winners

    On January 2, CCTV2005 Innovation Ceremony, an annual special program sponsored by SIPO, CCTV, after the evaluation, announced the winners. 26 pieces of innovative products stand out from 84 products selected out of thousands of products joining the competition, winning The Best Design, The Best Function Design, The Best Annual Feature Design and The Best Independent Creative Design, respectively. What is most worth mentioning is the Best Independent Creative Design winners: Amoi DV mobile-phone A660, Aigo MP-E858MP4, Lenovo Tianyi 200, Haier Space Navigation Convertible Frequency Refrigerator, etc. that are of novel design, unique plan and full of charm of the independent brand. 
    The evaluation committee composed of representatives of SIPO, CCTV, domestic and foreign design associations (institutes), universities, media, academicians as well as experts from Hong Kong and overseas. They carefully reviewed thousands of technologies in five fields (digital, mobile phone, automobile, computer and domestic electric appliance) of famous manufacturers all over the world. The experts held opinions that the candidate products of domestic enterprises, which have more considered customers’ human nature, are less influenced by international corporations.

January 9, 2006                     Source: IP Newspaper

IBM First, HP Third in Global Patents 2005

    News from foreign news agencies reported IBM Corporation, the biggest computer service provider in the world, had more patent applications to USPTO than that to any other countries. 
    Although 2941 patents are obtained by IBM last year, less than 3284 in 2004, they are still more than that of Japan’s Canon, the second biggest patentees who applied for 1828 patents in 2004.
    USPTO said that these figures come from the annual report of Patents of Organizations which had elementary statistics and amendments had gone through for months. According to data disclosed on the website of USPTO, IBM Corporation has been holding most patents in the world since 1994. 
    The third is HP Development Company, which obtained 1797 patents. Then comes Panasonic of Japan, Sumsung of Korea, etc. Sony Corporation of Japan is expelled out of the top ten for the first time.

January 15, 2006                          Source: www.xinhuanet.com

Hearsay: Intel Will Abandon Pentium Quietly

    A foreign media reported, Intel had finally decided to abandon its longtime and most valuable brand: Pentium. It is reported that Pentium would fade away quietly from the current generation of Intel: the single core 600 and D 800, D 900 series. 
    The source indicates that Intel will not announce its abandonment of Pentium, but quietly turn to use the name of “Intel D 920”or“Intel 672”. Obviously, Intel will soon carry out this transition. But Intel refused to make any comment on this issue.
    As an analyst pointed out, this series of processors counts for little in the product line of Intel. The focus has turned to platforms like Centrino. This analyst also predicted that the abandon of the brand of Pentium would cause some, but no fatal, economic loss damage to Intel.

January 18, 2006                          Source：www.ccidnet.com

Homemade Gingko Medicine Apply for International Patent

    By combining ancient gingko with modern gene technology to extract effective components out of leaves of gingko, the first domestic gene study in traditional Chinese medicine has succeeded. On yesterday’s Symposium of Pioneers in Gingko Leaf Industry, Professor Xie Delong, the director of Shanghai’s Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute, announced that the medicine Gingko Grain based on the study, had independent intellectual property, and had come into the market and would enter the medicine insurance of Shanghai this year. 
    The Gingko Grain has successively applied for Invention Patent of America and PCT patent. Though extension and further development, it had got nearly ten patents in about ten countries, which has formed a complete and accurate net for its patent protection.

January 10, 2006        Source: News Evening Paper