Guizhou
Hongqi Pharmaceutical Ltd., Hainan Xingzhongzheng Pharmaceutical Ltd.
and Qinhuangdao Huangwei Pharmaceutical Ltd. have filed request for
invalidation respectively on 13 August 2009, 14 September 2010 and 09
August 2010, targeting an invention patent owned by Wuzhou
Pharmaceutical Group with the name of Compound Chinese medicinal
preparation for treating gynecological diseases and preparation method
thereof (Patent No:ZL200410060988.7).
Entrusted
by the patent right owner, patent attorneies including Ms.
Zhang Qingmin, Mr Wang Jialing, Mr Wang Pengfei from CN-KnowHow
conducted written response with regard to the concerning patent and
attended oral proceedings before the patent re-examination board of the
State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). The patent re-examination
board of SIPO has made examination decisions on 10 February 2010, 31
January 2011 and 24 February 2011 respectively with regards to the
requests for invalidation, in which the concerning patent right
ZL200410060988.7 is ruled to be valid in all the cases.
In
recent years, CN-KnowHow focused on the training of professional
talents capable of handling re-examination, invalidation and litigation,
in addition to basic patent application and prosecution work. So far,
CN-KnowHow has achieved a success rate of over 80% in re-examination and
invalidation cases. Last year, CN-KnowHow has been entrusted for dozens
of invalidation cases by companies including Guangzhou Dalishi Garment
Co., Ltd., Nantong First Power Automation Co., Ltd., Nanyang Huanyu
Glass Products Ltd., Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Ltd.,
etc., and achieved favourable results in these cases as either plaintiff
or defendant.