The Hague Agreement is set to welcome three new countries as Israel, Samoa and Vietnam all deposited their instruments of accession to the Geneva Act (1999) of the Hague Agreement. ...
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In early 2019, a lawsuit was brought before a court in Hanoi, Vietnam for hearing. In the lawsuit petition, the plaintiff requested that the Hanoi People’s Court (i) revoke ...
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The intellectual property office of India has officially announced the Patents (Amendments) Rules. Initially drafted in December 2018, the new rules entered into effect upon their publication in the official ...
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On July 2, 2019, Brazil deposited their accession document to the Madrid Protocol, which will officially enter into effect as of October 2, 2019, after several years of discussion. The ...
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On September 9, 2019, in Nur-Sultan, five countries acceded to the Protocol on Protection of Industrial Designs to the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC). Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia constitute ...
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On July 1, 2019, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that they would extend the PPH pilot programme with IP Australia. This extension comes after the initial PPH programme between ...
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