Month: September 2021

Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) pre-announcement of the “Industrial Cooperation Patent Examination Interview Trial Operation Plan”

In order to enable patent examiners to quickly grasp the technical content of forward-looking technology patent applications, in order to improve the efficiency and quality of examination, and to meet the applicant’s needs for obtaining patents as soon as possible, so as to facilitate their patent layout, the Office has established the “Industrial Cooperation Patent …

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“Industry Trademark Application Strategy Manual for Designated Goods and Services” is newly introduced — How to designate goods/services when applying for a trademark from an industry perspective”

In order to enable the specific industry to clearly grasp the required scope of trademark rights to protect its own business and to correctly select the designated goods or services when applying for trademark registration, the Intellectual Property Office has specially edited the “Industry Trademark Application Strategy Manual for Designated Goods and Services” and established …

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The Australian Patent Office appealed the Federal Court’s decision that an artificial intelligence (AI) could be named as an inventor

On 30 July 2021, the Australian Federal Court found in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879 that, for the purposes of the Patents Act 1990, an artificial intelligence (AI) could be named as an inventor on a patent application. This decision overturned an earlier decision of Australian Patents Office that only a natural …

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KIPO’s New “Tech Police” Exclusively Dedicated to Preventing Technology Leakage and Infringement

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) released news about the organizational restructuring. In order to prevent the leakage and infringement of key technologies related to the national industrial competitiveness, KIPO newly established the “Technology & Design Police Division”, equipped with Special Judicial Police (SJP), committed to preventing technology leakage and infringement to foster a fair …

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