{"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 &#8211; 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 &#8220;old school&#8221; 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 &amp; 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 &#8220;old school&#8221; hard copy patent certificates need to request them by the end of February 2022.\u00a0 Similarly, the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office (USPTO) proposed to cease issuing paper patent &#8230;<\/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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