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- 2025-04-18
- USPTO Establishes Task Force to Combat Patent Fraud
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has formed a specialized working group to address emerging risks to the integrity of the nation's patent system. Named the Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Grou...

- 2025-04-18
- USPTO to Expedite Patent Issuance Starting May 13, 2025
- Beginning May 13, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will implement faster processing for patent issuance. Previously, the period between an Issue Notification and the official Issue Date averaged about thre...

- 2025-04-18
- Brazil Enacts New Trade Law with IP Retaliation Clause
- Brazil formally established a retaliatory framework against unilateral protectionist measures through the enactment of Law No. 15,122, the Trade Reciprocity Act, on April 11, 2025. Adjustments to intellectual property (IP) provisi...

- 2025-04-18
- USPTO Will Suspend Expedited Examination of Design Applications from April 17,2025
- On April 14, 2025, USPTO announced to suspend expedited examination of design applications effective April 17, 2025, to combat fraud and to reduce pendency and inventory of unexamined design applications.According to USPTO, re...

- 2025-04-15
- IP Statistical Bulletin for January-March 2025 from CNIPA
- I. PatentsFrom January to March 2025, China granted 199,000 invention patents, 408,000 utility model patents, and 161,000 design patents.By the end of March, the total number of valid invention patents in China reached 5.824 millio...

- 2025-04-14
- Global Brand Warfare: Lessons from Trademark Battles
- When the Korean version of Chayan Yuese (茶颜悦色) emerged on the streets of Seoul’s Myeongdong district, the Chinese beverage phenomenon found itself entangled in a classic globalization dilemma: international trademark squatting. ...
