The Eurasian Patent Office starts operations as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Only 24 patent offices in the world have status of International Authorities.The appointment of EAPO as an

As reported previously here, the European Patent Office (EPO) refused the so called DABUS applications (EP 18275163.6 and EP 18275174.3) for failing to meet the requirements of the European Patent Convention (EPC) because the applications designated an artificial intelligence (AI) as the sole invent

Montenegro is due to become the 39th member state of the European Patent Organisation. On 15 July, the country accomplished the final step towards acceding to the European Patent Convention (EPC) by depositing its instrument of accession. As a result, Montenegros accession will take effect on 1 Octo

BAGHDAD – The Directorate of Patents and Industrial Designs in Iraq has issued new requirements for trademark licensing.The new required documents are as follows:• Power of attorney legalised;• License agreement document signed by the licensee legalised, and• Certificate of incorporation or extract

The five patent offices (IP5) accepted a total of 2,892,936 invention patent applications in 2021, an increase of 4% over 2020. Among the 1,585,663 applications accepted by CNIPA, 90% were from domestic applicants in mainland China. The USPTO accepted 591,475 cases, of which 8% were submitted by Ame