On September 11, 2009, the Government of Liberia deposited with the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) its…
The Egyptian law has been amended to the effect that the annuity due date of PCT National phase applications will be calculated for a period of 20…
Thailand deposited on 24/09/2009 its instrument of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Thailand is the 142nd contracting state of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As of 01/04/2010, divisional applications on the applicant's own initiative (so-called voluntary divisional applications) will need to be filed within…