It is reported that China State Intellectual Property Office, started Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot in January 1, 2013 with the Danish Patent and Trademark Office and the Finnish National Board of Patents and Registration respectively, and the two PPH pilots last for one year, ending at December 31, 2013.

According to the "Memorandum of Understanding on the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot between China State Intellectual Property Office and the Portuguese Industrial Property Office" and the "Memorandum of Understanding on Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot between China State Intellectual Property Office and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office", the two PPH pilots officially started from January 1, 2014. The Sino-Portugal PPH pilot lasts for two years, ending at December 31, 2015. The Sino-Spanish PPH pilot lasts for three years, ending at December 31, 2016.

After the Sino-Portugal PPH pilot started, the applicant can apply to the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) for PPH in accordance with the “Process of PPH Request to SIPO by the Sino-Portugal PPH Pilot"; and apply to the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) for PPH in accordance with the “Process of PPH Request to INPI by the Portugal-China PPH Pilot".

After the Sino-Spanish PPH pilot started, the applicant can apply to the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) for PPH in accordance with the “Process of PPH Rquest to SIPO by the Sino-Spanish PPH Pilot"; and apply to the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) for PPH in accordance with "The process of PPH request to SPTO by the Spain-China PPH pilot".

In recent years, China's trademark applications continue to maintain good momentum of rapid growth. Since 2010, the annual registration of trademark applications exceed one million for four consecutive years, 1,072,000 in 2010, 1,417,000 in 2011, 1,648,000 in 2012, and 1,882,000 in 2013, which is a record high.

Statistics show that the State Intellectual Property Office accepted 2,377,000 cases of applications for invention patent, utility model patent and design patent, with a year-on-year increase of 15.9%; and granted three kinds of patents totaling 1,313,000 cases, with a year-on-year increase of 4.6%. The acceptance of Chinese invention patent application maintains rapid growth, with a rate ranking first among the three kinds of patents, and patent applications account for 34.7% of the total patents accepted, more than 1/3 for the first time. Among them, there are 705,000 cases of domestic patent applications, with a year-on-year increase of 31.8%. In addition, the grant of Chinese invention patent witnesses a decrease of 4.1%. The initiatives to improve Chinese patent quality have been effective, in which there are 144,000 cases of domestic invention patents, same as last year, while the foreign invention patents fall by 12.3%. It is particularly worth mentioning that in 2013, there are 427,000 cases of Chinese enterprises invention patent application, accounting for 60.6% of total domestic applications; Chinese enterprises obtain 79,000 patents, accounting for 54.9% of total domestic patents, and the dominant position of corporate intellectual property stabilizes gradually.

China joined the “Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Trademarks" in October 1989, and joined the “Protocal Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Trademarks " in December 1995.

Under the agreement, the acquisition includes the Motorola brand, such as innovative smart phone portfolio like Moto X and Moto G and DROIDTM Super Series products. In addition to existing products, Lenovo will take full control of Motorola's mobile product planning. Google will continue to hold the majority of Motorola's mobile patent portfolio, including existing patent applications and invention disclosures. As part of Lenovo's long-term relationship with Google, Lenovo will acquire licenses for relevant patent portfolio and other intellectual property. In addition, Lenovo will acquire more than 2,000 patents assets, and Motorola mobile brand and trademark portfolio.

With its professional standards, recognized business and research capabilities, Unitalen litigation law firm was named the "2013 Annual China Outstanding Team for Intellectual Property ", and Mr. Zhang Yazhou received the award. On the same day of the annual meeting, Li Yongbo was invited to participate in the "dialogue between lawyers and judges”, discussing focuses of current intellectual property practice and legal regulations with the judges. On the second day of the training, intellectual property judges, prominent lawyers and intellectual property legal experts explained enforcement and defensive strategies for intellectual property litigation, with a focus on the latest legislative developments at home and abroad. The lecture-"Practices of Due Diligence of Innovative Corporate Patent" by Mr. Li Hongjiang received widespread concern of enterprises.

The "Chinese New Year Forum on Intellectual Property Rights" was founded in 2011, organized by the "China Intellectual Property" magazine and China Daily IP Channel, which had been successfully held for three times. This forum invited experts and scholars in the field of intellectual property, corporate executives, and elites from law firms, for a collision of ideas themed on "Opportunities and challenges of China's intellectual property in the new round of reform", and for positive and useful exploration of China's intellectual property development.

WTR evaluation: Unitalen is well-known for its huge amount of trade mark applications, and the recent case of “Sany” well-known trademark protection fully proved its excellent representation capabilities. In addition, according to the customer evaluation, WTR made a brief introduction of expertise and service characteristics of Unitalen’s representative lawyers in the field of trademark -Chen Dan, Huang Ying and Li Yongbo.

The Supreme Court held that the operators in the market transactions, should follow the principles of voluntariness, equality, fairness, honesty and credibility, and observe generally recognized business ethics. Violation of the provisions of the Unfair Competition Law, prejudice to legitimate interests of other operators and disruption of social economic order fall into definition of unfair competition. In this case, Qihoo and Qizhi induced and provided tools to actively help users change the operation mode of QQ software for its commercial purposes, its fundamental purpose is to sell and promote the 360 security guards through derogatory means on QQ software and services based on QQ software users group, thereby increasing their market trading opportunities and obtaining competitive advantage, which by nature is unfair use of other people’s market outcomes, for their own personal business opportunities to gain a competitive advantage, constitutes unfair competition and shall bear corresponding legal responsibility.

Earlier, the Guangdong High People's Court issued the first instance judgment on the case that Qihoo constituted unfair competition, ordering it to compensate Tencent 5,000,000 Yuan. After that, Qihoo appealed to the Supreme People’s Court.