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The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a concept originally proposed by the Japanese Patent Office (JPO). PPH has the

A while ago the Chinese authorities released the “Opinion Solicitation Draft for Third Amendment to Trademark Law” (“the Draft”).

Following a key US Supreme Court ruling earlier this year we announced that the practice in regard to the

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced in a press release on 8 October 2009 that it

It is now almost a year since the President of the EPO referred four questions relating to the patentability

Filing a divisional used to be a common procedure before oral proceedings as well as before grant of a

A series of changes to the German intellectual property laws was recently passed by the German parliament. The reforms

The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has ruled that there cannot be any difference between patents and utility models in

It is well known that many companies, for cost reasons, choose to manufacture and buy products in low-cost countries,

This is a second blog post on patent enforcement in Eastern countries. Having already discussed China, we now turn