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- 2025-08-11
- WEIPR Powers "Wuhan Speed" for Siengine, Accelerating High-Value Patents Through Pre-Examination Express Lane
- In an era where intellectual property is increasingly central to corporate competitiveness, the efficiency and quality of patent pre-examination are crucial for transforming technological achievements and shaping market strategy. In the f...

- 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...

- 2025-08-08
- Case Study: How WEIPR Helped Secure a Patent for Breakthrough Battery Material
- At WEIPR, we recently supported Wuhan University in successfully defending a patent application for an innovative battery material. The invention is titled "A Composite Material Made of Dual-Metal Selenide Nanoparticle...

- 2025-08-06
- Combatting Trademark Squatting: Leveraging Article 15(2) of China's Trademark Law for Victory
- Understanding the Legal ProvisionArticle 15(2) of China's Trademark Law provides crucial protection against bad-faith trademark squatting. It states that if a trademark applied for on identical or similar goods/services is ident...

- 2025-08-04
- WEIPR Expert Shares Insights on Patent-Intensive Product Registration at IP Circuit Salon, Boosting Enterprise Innovation
- On July 30, 2025, the Intellectual Property Circuit Salon, hosted by the Wuhan Intellectual Property Rapid Protection Center and the Hanyang District Market Regulation Administration (Intellectual Property Office), and o...
