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【Global News】Joint Statement by USPTO and JPO on efforts to further improve the Patent Prosecution Highway
2025-05-06The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Japan Patent Office (JPO) intend to further improve their Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programs.The PPH is a fast-track examination framework that enables users to make a simple request to accelerate examination of a patent application pe -
【Global News】Go-ahead for the unitary patent system
2025-05-06Today, history is being written - the last hurdle now gone for a unitary patent As early as 2009, 25 EU countries agreed on a solution to achieve a unitary patent system. In practice, however, the solution could not be launched because questions about the validity of the agreements were raised in th -
【Global News】Changes to Names and Notes of Designated Goods and Services for Trademark Registration
2025-05-06In response to the latest version of Nice Classification NCL (11-2022), TIPO has amended its own list of Names of Designated Goods and Services for Trademark Registration, effective January 1, 2022. The changes include 45 revisions and 556 additions. As for amends done to class/subclass names or not -
【GE CHENG News】Ten Points for Attention on Application for Trademark Modification! What should be noticed when applying for trademark modification?
2025-05-061. If the name or address of the trademark registrant is to be modified, the trademark registrant shall change all registered trademarks together. For registered trademarks that need to be modified together, the applicant can apply for cancellation if they are no longer in use.2. If the modification -
【GE CHENG News】Beijing Intellectual Property Court proposed the reform of all administrative cases of patent and trademark right confirmation to the formula of online filing and handling
2025-05-06At the beginning of 2020, the abrupt outbreak of Covid-19 had a huge impact on the judicial work, then how to guarantee the litigation rights of the parties and do well in all trials based on doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control is a long-term problem that entails to be solved well.