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.
As you may know, the cost of the Community Trademarks will soon be reduced.
These measures permit to obtain, over the course of a single filing, the protection of a design in all European Union countries as well as in other countries of the Geneva Act (currently 23 countries)
Incidence of the law of Modernization of the Economy of the 4th August, 2008 about the right of Trademarks and Designs
According to the London Agreement, the validation stage of the European patents the date of grant of which will be published from the 1st May, 2008 will be simplified.