The European Patent Office has recently issued a decision that a machine cannot be named as inventor for a European patent application. On 27 January 2020, the EPO refused two European patent applications (EP3564144A1 and EP3563896A1, relating to a food...
Adjust your Yuletide calendars to 1st November because Christmas is coming early this year. On the 23rd April 2019, China’s legislators passed significant amendments to their Trade Mark legislation to combat the scourge of bad-faith Applications, more...
Until recently, it was typically difficult for a non-Chinese applicant to accelerate a patent application, due to the requirement of submitting a request form sealed by a provincial Chinese IP Bureau the applicant is resident in. However, as of 1st August 2017,...
Not too long ago, Cambodia became a ‘validation state’ for the European Patent Convention (discussed here). This gives the option to extend a European patent into Cambodia. Now Cambodia has introduced another change: a registration-style system based on Chinese...
First and foremost, if you manufacture or do business in the Peoples Republic of China (or are considering doing so), you should quickly and seriously consider Trade Mark Registration. China operates a “first to file” system of Trade Mark Registration, which simply...