The All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA) released the nation's first Service Protocol for Patent Representation Business on August 20.
As introduced by an ACPAA executive, the Protocol includes three parts, general principles, specific provisions and annexes, providing requirements for practices in patent representation business, such as principles of notification, authorization, confidentiality, management of files, drafting and submission of patent applications, patent administrative reconsideration, invalidation and litigation.  The Protocol will be on trial run for year before formal execution.

(China IP News)