Thailand deposited on 24/09/2009 its instrument of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Thailand is the 142nd contracting state of the PCT.
The Government of the Republic of Costa Rica has deposited, on July 17, 2008, its instrument of ratification of the Trademark Law Treaty (TLT), done at Geneva on October 27, 1994.
The Trademark Law…
It has been confirmed that it is allowed for an application to try to file identical applications on the same day both for a patent for invention and for a patent for utility model respectively so as…
As from 01/11/2009, the number of courts compentent for intellectual property cases is reduced in France :
The OHIM web site now allows a new online filing system for Community design.
The advantage of this new system is that we receive immediately the filing number. The pubication, is requested at the…
On 24/07/2009, France ratified (Law n° 2009-892 of 24/07/2009) the patent law treaty (PLT), adopted at Geneva on 01/06/2000.
It is now possible to file French trademarks by electronic submission. The new official fee for this filing is of 200 € instead of 225 € for a paper filing. This fee applies for trademark designating…
As of 01/04/2010, divisional applications on the applicant's own initiative (so-called voluntary divisional applications) will need to be filed within a period of two years from the first…
The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, has announced that revised fees for international trade mark applications designating the European Community under the Madrid Protocol will take…
The new official fees for CTM, including an important fee <link>reduction will enter into force on 01/05/2009.
