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- 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...

- 2024-10-12
- USPTO Ending the After Final Consideration Pilot Program
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced that it will terminate the After Final Consideration Pilot Program (AFCP 2.0) and that December 14, 2024, will be the last date for applicants to submit re...
