{"id":1955,"date":"2022-02-12T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:56:01","slug":"china-to-cease-issuing-paper-patent-certificates-request-them-before-march-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2022\/02\/china-to-cease-issuing-paper-patent-certificates-request-them-before-march-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Cease Issuing Paper Patent Certificates – Request Them Before March 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/cnipa.gov.cn\">China National Intellectual Property Administration<\/a> (CNIPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2020\/01\/china-patent-office-to-cease-issuing-paper-patent-certificates\/\">ceased automatically issuing paper patent certificates in 2020<\/a>, patentees could still request a paper certificate. However, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnipa.gov.cn\/art\/2022\/2\/11\/art_74_173171.html\">CNIPA announcement 472<\/a> released February 11, 2022, CNIPA will no longer accept requests for paper certificates as of March 1, 2022.\u00a0 Accordingly, patentees looking for “old school” hard copy patent certificates need to request them by the end of February 2022.\u00a0 Similarly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/uspto.gov\">U.S. Patent & Trademark Office<\/a> (USPTO) proposed to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/12\/15\/2021-27117\/electronic-patent-issuance\"> cease issuing paper patent certificates starting in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-2048x1158.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/472-1200x678.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">While the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) ceased automatically issuing paper patent certificates in 2020, patentees could still request a paper certificate. However, per CNIPA announcement 472 released February 11, 2022, CNIPA will no longer accept requests for paper certificates as of March 1, 2022.\u00a0 Accordingly, patentees looking for “old school” hard copy patent certificates need to request them by the end of February 2022.\u00a0 Similarly, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) proposed to cease issuing paper patent …<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2022\/02\/china-to-cease-issuing-paper-patent-certificates-request-them-before-march-1-2022\/\" class=\"button\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China to Cease Issuing Paper Patent Certificates - Request Them Before March 1, 2022 - China IP Law Update<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2022\/02\/china-to-cease-issuing-paper-patent-certificates-request-them-before-march-1-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China to Cease Issuing Paper Patent Certificates - Request Them Before March 1, 2022 - China IP Law Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) ceased automatically issuing paper patent certificates in 2020, patentees could still request a paper certificate. 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