Agreement on how to cooperate with foreign patented drugs in China

1. It shall be handled according to the agreement signed between the country to which it belongs and China. The agreements mentioned here mainly refer to the bilateral agreements signed between China and other countries. If the agreement stipulates that natural persons, enterprises and organizations of the other party are allowed to apply for patents in their own countries, it shall be handled in accordance with this provision.

2. It shall be handled in accordance with the international treaties to which the country to which it belongs and China are parties. China has acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Convention for the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Both treaties stipulate that member countries should allow each other to apply for and obtain patents and implement the principle of national treatment. Therefore, China should grant national treatment to citizens, legal persons or other organizations that are parties to the above two conventions who apply for patents in China.

3, in line with the principle of reciprocity. The principle of reciprocity, also known as the principle of reciprocity, means that if a country allows its citizens, enterprises and organizations to apply for and obtain patents in that country, then China also allows its citizens, enterprises and organizations to apply for and obtain patents in China.