China

An Air filled umbrella.

To end the awkward and unwieldy umbrellas, designers in China have teamed up with university students to invent a better kind of umbrella – a device that creates a force-field of air around you to shield you from the rain. Over the past two years, this team of designers in China has been working with …

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New Patent Prosecution Highway between the UK and China

A new pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programme has been launched between the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People’s Republic of China. The UK-China PPH pilot started on the 1 July 2014 and will run for an initial period of two years, ending on 30 June …

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