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- 2024-11-01
- The Eurasian Design Patent Will Cover all 8 EAPO Member States Since 2025
- The Government of Turkmenistan has transmitted to WIPO its instrument of accession to the Protocol to the Eurasian Patent Convention on the Protection of Industrial Designs.Pursuant to Article 22(4) of the Protocol, it shal...

- 2024-11-01
- Change in the Amounts of the Individual Fee Concerning Madrid International Registration: Viet Nam
- 1. In accordance with Rule 35(2)(d) of the Regulations under the Madrid Protocol, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has established new amounts, in Swiss francs, of the individual fe...

- 2024-11-01
- Easier Fee Payments for Chinese Applicants to the EPO
- Chinese applicants can more easily use the EPO as their International Searching Authority under the PCT. They will be able to pay fees in their local currency from 1 December 2024.The European Patent Office (EPO) and the ...

- 2024-11-01
- The China-New Zealand Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Project Will Be Launched on November 1, 2024
- As jointly decided by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ), the China- New Zealand PPH pilot will be launched on November 1, ...

- 2024-10-17
- How to Safeguard Rights and Interests Facing Bad Faith Squatting of Trademark
- In production and business activities, operators often use trademarks in practice but fail to register them in a timely manner due to various reasons. When the "popular" trademarks used by operators are preemptively registered o...

- 2024-10-17
- Caution! The Omission of These Documents Can Have a Significant Impact on Trademark Registration
- During trademark application process, the Trademark Office sometimes issues a notice to the applicant. Some of the documents issued by the Trademark Office are transmitted in electronic form, and some are transmitted in the form of pa...
