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Amendments to Hong Kong’s Trade Marks Ordinance paves the way for Madrid Protocol
The Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 was gazetted on June 19, 2020. While the Amendment does not introduce any
China becomes top international patent filer
China filed 58,990 applications through WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System last year, ending the US’s stronghold on the
WIPO panel finds that Danish start-up Acubit engaged in reverse domain name hijacking
Technology start-up Acubit claimed that Danish trademark rules and practice should assign domain names to the relevant trademark owner.
Global Innovation Index 2015: Switzerland, UK and Sweden at the top
The recently issued Global Innovation Index (GII), which is co-published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Cornell University
Controversy behind Ms. Tu Youyou, the first Chinese female Noble Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced on 5 October. It was rewarded with one half
Time for abolishment of basic registrations for international registrations of trademarks?
By an application of international registration according to the Madrid system a trademark can be registered in a number