These days, the CNIPA and the European Patent Office jointly issued a joint communiqué, announcing that the Pilot Project of International Search Authorities under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) will be extended for one year from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. Under this project, Chines

The Amended and Supplemented Intellectual Property Law of Vietnam has been approved on June 16, 2022, and it will be effective from January 1, 2023. Main Contents of that are as follows:·In Clause 13, Article 4 of the New Law, the definition of industrial design has been supplemented that a protecte

The Namibian Industrial Property Act of 2012, which came into effect on 1 August 2018, introduced substantive examination of patent applications in Namibia.On 10 June 2022, at the Heads of Intellectual Property Offices Conference held in Ezulwini in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the Business and Intellec

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new public webpage that provides information on applications for patent term extension (PTE) that have been filed within the past five years and patent terms extended under 35 U.S.C. § 156. The information includes the application

On 31 March 2022, Malaysia deposited the instrument of ratification at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Headquarters in Geneva and officially acceded to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. This