According to the data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva On February 10, in 2021, Chinese applicants submitted 69,500 international patent applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) , a year-on-year increase of 0.9%, ranking first in the number of

China has joined WIPOs Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, marking a major development for the International Design System, as well as the Marrakesh Treaty, bringing one of the world’s great cultural and literary traditions into the Marrakesh community.WIPO Directo

ABU DHABI – As the United Arab Emirates continues to improve the Intellectual Property environment to be an attractive market for businesses, it decided to bring legal reform to the laws relating to Intellectual Property. The new IP laws were approved by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President

The Korean National Assembly passed a revision bill to the Korean Patent Act (“KPA”) that will go into effect on April 20, 2022. The revision primarily pertains to measures designed to ease the prosecuting and acquiring of patents by way of, inter alia, introducing: extension of time to respond to a

On 9 December 2021, the CARUFORUM Directorate and the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project, CarIPI, will be launching a new consultation tool. Caribbean TMclass, a regional interface of TMclass.This classification tool developed by the European Union Intelletual Property Office (EU