Comments to the CNIPA on Draft Revision of the Guidelines for Patent Examination (First Batch of Draft for Comment)

2020-11-15 | Beijing, Shanghai

This revision gives applicants the opportunity to supplement data to prove prescriptions have been fully disclosed. The draft also returns to the three-step method of inventiveness determination, largely avoiding inspectors ignoring effects found through patent application, so inspectors and applicants can discuss inventiveness in the frame of the three-step method, putting them on the same page, and increase inspection efficiency. The revision is overall welcomed by applicants.