On October 17, the National People’s Congress (NPC) formally adopted a revised patent law, which will take effect on June 1, 2021. The new law includes significant changes in the intellectual property legal framework with...more
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On 11 September 2020, China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA, formerly “China Food and Drug Administration”) published its proposed regulation on patent linkage, “Measures for the Implementation of the Early...more
On 6 July, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) published additional amendments to its draft patent law, which was first released in January 2019. As we reported at that time here, the proposed Chinese Patent Law...more
Faster review periods and waiver of requirement for Chinese clinical trials are intended to encourage marketing applications -
On 28 March China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) published a list of an...more
On January 4, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) released draft amendments to the Chinese Patent Law, proposing expanded and enhanced protections that may provide real benefits to companies that develop new drugs. ...more
On 8 August 2018, in an unprecedented regulatory action, the China National Drug Administration (CNDA) called on international pharmaceutical companies to bring 48 new drugs to China. These new drugs are viewed to be urgently...more
This is the first time the China Drug Administration (CDA) provides details on how the data exclusivity applies to pre-clinical and clinical data submitted to the agency. Companies with plans to launch pharmaceutical products...more