Our country changes the rules of patent law to make provisions for confidential examination procedure

Xinhua Beijing, February 3, Xinhua reporters 3rd in the national new Office held a press conference to understand that the revised "PRC patent Law Implementation Rules", the completion of inventions in China to foreign patent applications, should be reported in advance by the Patent Administration Department of the State Council for confidential review. It is understood that the implementation of the revised rules, added 9 provisions, deleted 5 provisions, and 47 provisions of the substantive changes, it is the original implementation of the rules of a comprehensive revision, to improve our patent system is of great significance.　　The amended implementation rules not only make further detailed provisions on the content of the increase and modification of the patent law, so that it can be implemented, and there are many improvements to the rules of implementation. Yin Yun Tian, director of the Law division of the State Intellectual Property Office, said that in order to implement the provision, the following provisions were made: first, considering the increasing number of cross-border cooperation in research and development, the definition of the scope of the need for confidential review, the "invention or utility model completed in China" as " (b) The invention or utility model completed in China by the substantive content of the technical programme; the second is to provide specific provisions for confidentiality review procedures, both to ensure the normal conduct of confidential review, and to ensure that the applicant can in the shortest possible time to know the conclusions of the confidential review, so that the timely application of patents