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- 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...

- 2024-10-17
- Russia Adjusts Patent Maintenance Fees to a Five-Year Payment Cycle and Expands Fee Exemption Scope
- Resolution No. 1278 of the Federal Government of Russia, officially promulgated on September 18, 2024, entered into force on October 5 of the same year, which comprehensively adjusted the official fees for multiple intellectual prope...

- 2024-10-17
- United Kingdom Will Continue Issuing Statements of Grant of Protection Concerning International Registration of Designs
- On 9 October 2024, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) received and published a decision that the UK Intellectual Property Office will continue to issue statements of grant of protection concerning internation...

- 2024-10-12
- USPTO Terminates Roughly 3000 Patent Application Proceedings
- On October 2, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a final order terminating proceedings in roughly 3,100 patent applications for the fraudulent entry of the S-signature of a registered practitioner by someone ot...
