Month: June 2020

TIPO-KIPO Permanent PPH MOTTAINAI Program Comes Into Effect on July 1, 2020

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program between Taiwan and South Korea has expired on June 30, 2020. In view of its impressive results in acceleration of examination, both sides have agreed that a permanent PPH program will replace the current one, starting July 1, 2020. The permanent program is aimed at continuing to provide …

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Update of certification mark information area

We have compiled all registration information (including invalid cases such as expired non-renewal, cancellation or withdrawal) since the implementation of the certification mark system into 15 subject classification tables based on the characteristics of the goods and services involved in the certification content, including “Agriculture, livestock and aquatic products”, “Food and beverages”, “Green energy, environmental …

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Mainland China Trademark Office released an online addition of non-standard project declaration system

The Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office of China (hereinafter referred to as the Trademark Office) issued an online trademark registration application for non-standard project declaration system on May 20, 2020, which has been open to the public. After the release of the system, it will change the way in which non-standard projects …

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The State Intellectual Property Office of Mainland China will open trademark invalidation and other online application functions

The State Intellectual Property Office of Mainland China announced on May 25, 2020 that it will continue to deepen the reform of trademark registration facilitation, open trademark invalidation, opposition, and cancellation for three years without using the online application function. The whole process of reviewing cases electronically is the direction that the Trademark Review and …

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Announcement of changes in the names of goods/services designated for use in trademark applications and search reference materials.

In order to make the classification of goods and services more up-to-date, with reference to the latest trends in the market, a total of 468 items have been added and 14 items deleted, and 16 subcategories/group names or remarks have been added and revised after reviewing the names of goods/services designated for trademark registration (detailed …

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