The plaintiff is a large-scale manufacturing enterprise in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, specializing in R&D, production and sales of high-precision connectors and LED brackets, and owns a design patent related to a cable connector (hereinafter referred to as the patent design involved). The third party filed a request for invalidation of the patent on the ground that the design did not significantly differ from the prior design, and failed to comply with Article 23.2 of the Chinese Patent Law (CPL), and the CNIPA made a decision of invalidation.
2021-10-22