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- 2025-08-08
- USPTO Eliminates Email Verification for Agency System Access, Mandates Multifactor Authentication
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will discontinue email-based account verification effective November 1, 2025, requiring all customers—including patent and trademark practitioners and agencies—to adopt multifactor ...

- 2025-08-08
- EPO Opens Representative Associations to Legal Practitioners from October
- As of 1 October 2025, legal practitioners will be permitted to join associations of representatives within the European Patent Office (EPO), ensuring equal treatment with professional representatives. Professional representatives a...

- 2025-07-28
- Guidelines for Handling Rapid Examination of Trademark Registration Applications
- I. Applicable Circumstances Article 2 of the Measures for Rapid Examination of Trademark Registration Applications stipulates that trademark registration applications falling under any of the following circumstances may request ra...

- 2025-07-24
- USPTO to Resume In-Person PTAB Hearings
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that all Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) hearings will return to in-person format effective September 1, 2025. Under the new policy, all parties...

- 2025-07-24
- UK Launches Consultation to Reform Standard Essential Patent Framework
- The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has initiated a public consultation on reforming the Standard Essential Patent (SEP) framework, aiming to eliminate innovation barriers in critical technologies including 5G communic...

- 2025-07-18
- Change of the Individual Fee under Madrid Protocol Concerning Republic of Korea
- The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has established new amounts of the individual fee payable with respect to Republic of Korea under Madrid Protocol. As from August 10, 2025, the amo...
