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Croatia Joins the European Union – What does this mean for Community Trade Marks and Designs?
Croatia joined the European Union on 1st July 2013, bringing the total number of Member St...
Croatia joined the European Union on 1st July 2013, bringing the total number of Member States of the EU to 28. What does this mean for existing Community trade - Read more
Patent advice for innovative product is ‘no sweat’ for Swindell & Pearson
Odegon Technologies, a technical fabric innovator, based in Telford, Shropshire, have deve...
Odegon Technologies, a technical fabric innovator, based in Telford, Shropshire, have developed and commercialised a tag that absorbs odours and may now be foun - Read more
Trade Marks get an Indian Summer
India has recently joined the Madrid system of trade mark registration, making it far more...
India has recently joined the Madrid system of trade mark registration, making it far more affordable and quicker to register your trade mark in India – a count - Read more
Fancy getting a patent in Iran?
Filing patent applications in Iran is to get a little easier now that it has joined the Pa...
Filing patent applications in Iran is to get a little easier now that it has joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Accordingly Iran will be designated in - Read more
Customer Complaints Identify Trade Mark Infringement
How good is your business at listening to consumer comments? A recent court case between M...
How good is your business at listening to consumer comments? A recent court case between Microsoft and Sky Television underlines that they may be one of the bes - Read more
Superfast Patents in the UK?
The UK Patent Office have made a proposal for a superfast process for granting UK patents,...
The UK Patent Office have made a proposal for a superfast process for granting UK patents, possibly in as little as 90 days. This may be attractive to clients i - Read more
European patent application filings at all time high
A European Patent Office press release has indicated that European patent application fili...
A European Patent Office press release has indicated that European patent application filings reached an all time high of 258,000 in 2012, representing a 5.7% i - Read more
Proposed changes at European Patent Office
Many European patents are sought via an International patent application filed under the P...
Many European patents are sought via an International patent application filed under the PCT. Difficulties are quite regularly encountered by applicants when it - Read more
Reduced Corporation Tax - How to get inside the Patent Box
The introduction of the Patent Box now enables companies to apply a lower rate (eventually...
The introduction of the Patent Box now enables companies to apply a lower rate (eventually 10%) of Corporation Tax to worldwide profits earned after 1st April 2 - Read more
Received an unusual communication?
When IP rights are applied for this generally produces a public notification which is prov...
When IP rights are applied for this generally produces a public notification which is provided on one or more databases. A number of parties search such databas - Read more
Has your UK trade mark opposition been filed on time?
A two month opposition term, which can be extended by a further month upon request, is set...
A two month opposition term, which can be extended by a further month upon request, is set for opposing UK trade marks. If an opposition is to be filed it is cr - Read more
Record number of International patent filings
Continued growth in the number of PCT international patent applications filed in 2012 has ...
Continued growth in the number of PCT international patent applications filed in 2012 has lead to a new record number of PCT applications filed in one year 19 - Read more