Partner @ Bird & Bird | China Intellectual Property - FLC (D.C. and NY) - Qualified (England & Wales, Hong Kong)
A new era for pharmaceutical cases in China: we start to see winning patent linkage cases enforcing the rights of international companies such as AstraZeneca v Sichuan Gowell, Chugai Pharma v Ouyi. In infringement cases: Boehringer Ingelheim v Sunshine Lake and a few more. Administrative enforcement action is the popular route nowadays. The statistic below is by no mean complete because China Judgment Online only contains some but far from all of the effective judgments. But it is definitely a change of scene from the half-Bolar ice age pre-2021.