Patent Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress on March 12, 1984 and amended in accordance with the Decision by the 27th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on Amending the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China on September 4, 1992)

Chapter I - General Provisions

Chapter II - Conditions for the Grant of Patent Rights

Chapter III - Application for Patents

Chapter IV - Examination and Approval of Patent Applications

Chapter V - Term, Termination and Invalidation of Patent Rights

Chapter VI - Compulsory License for Exploitation of Patent

Chapter VII - Protection of Patent Rights

Chapter VIII - Supplementary Provisions

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Patent Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress on March 12, 1984 and amended in accordance with the Decision by the 27th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on Amending the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China on September 4, 1992)

Chapter III - Application for Patents

Article 29

Where, within twelve months from the date on which any applicant first filed in a foreign country an application for a patent for invention or utility model, or within six months form the date on which any applicant first filed in a foreign country an application for a patent for design, he or it files in China an application for a patent for the same subject matter, he or it may, in accordance with any agreement concluded between the said foreign country and China, or in accordance with any international treaty to which both countries are party, or on the basis of the principle of mutual recognition of the right of priority, enjoy a right of priority.

Where, within twelve months from the date on which any applicant first filed in China an application for a patent for invention or utility model he or it files with the Patent Office an application for a patent for the same subject matter, he or it may enjoy a right of priority.

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