Fourth amendments of the Chinese patent law has taken effect on June 1, 2021, wherein, as for Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) for pharmaceutical patents, Paragraph 3 of Article 42 stipulates that, in order to compensate for the time taken for the review and approval of new drugs, for new drug-related invention patents that have been approved for marketing in China, the Patent Administration Department of the State Council shall, at the request of the patentee, grant compensation for the duration of the patent right.