The Opinions on Medicines and Medical Appliances Innovation to Establish the Patent Linking System

2017/10/23

Recently, General Office of the CPC Central Committee and General Office of the State Council printed and issued the Opinions on Deepening the System Reform of Review, Examination and Approval and Encouraging the Innovation of Medicine and Medical Appliances. They also dispatched a notice to require all of the involved departments in different districts to implement this documentation combining the practice. Highlights involving the patent issues includes the establishment of prior review, examination and approval system of compulsory patent licensing medicines etc.