Xiaohui Wu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property reports on a ruling by the Supreme People’s Court of China that emphasises that the determination of common knowledge in the assessment of inventiveness ...

Of all the ironies in academia, this one felt particularly unlikely: I was asked to introduce Steven Pinker and moderate the Q&A for his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... : ...

Yujie Jin of Liu Shen & Associates explains the elements of Chinese patent law that deal with common knowledge, and gives advice on dealing with them during substantive examination Common knowledge is ...

The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

In Ross v. U.S., decided last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals, defendant had left her dog Cinnamon for over an hour in a parked car on a hot day (98 F) with the windows cracked open. (There was ...

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...