Region: Hong Kong

Our annual list of the region’s best in the business now boasts 93 organisations, with Japanese companies scooping the most spots

06 June 2024

Saturday opinion: IP holders in the region are well placed to test out the benefits of the UPC, but fear of uncertainty is holding them back

01 July 2023

The pilot programme, now six months in, allows for parallel accelerated examination of Hong Kong patent applications by the world’s second largest economy

27 June 2023

As International Women’s Day approaches, Amita Haylock, co-chair of the Women’s Network in Asia, discusses the alarming findings of a new report  

03 March 2023

Featured in Special Report 2022 Q2: The Asia IP Elite

30 May 2022

Inbound patent applications from China's mainland nearly quadrupled in 2020, with Tencent and Alibaba leading the way as digital payments take off in the city

20 August 2021

August transfers make clear that the Alipay operator will be a patent power in its own right, inheriting up to one quarter of the e-commerce giant’s US portfolio

14 September 2020

China’s next big IPO will feature one of the country’s auto IP leaders, which has more than 9,000 patents and counts licensing as a major revenue source

07 September 2020

Filing documents detail IP strategy of the Alipay operator, which is preparing what could be the biggest IPO in history

27 August 2020

Rights owners’ golden summer continues, the China angle, a growing consensus on some key FRAND questions and more as the market reacts to decision

26 August 2020