The revised “Rules of the State Intellectual Property Office on Administrative Reconsideration” ( “AR”) has been promulgated
The amended “AR” comes into force on 1st Sep. 2012. Compared with the original “AR” came into force on 1st Sep. 2002, the biggest highlights of the revised “AR” is that the scope of the administrativeacts which can be applied for administrative reconsideration is amended from 19 specific administrativeacts and 1 miscellaneous provision to 4 categories of administrativeacts and 1 miscellaneousprovision, which are as follows: (1)refuse to accept the specific administrativeacts conducted by the State Intellectual Property Office(SIPO) concerning the application of patent, patent right; (2)refuse to accept the specific administrative acts conducted by SIPO concerning the application of Layout-Designsfor…