As of September 2022, the high-value invention patents examination has been reduced to 13 months, the average examination period for invention patents has been reduced to 16.5 months, and the average review cycle for trademark registration remains stable at 4 months. The "telecommunication" of certi

On September 15, the 14th BRICS Heads of Intellectual Property Office Meeting hosted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China was held in the form of video. The meeting was chaired by Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of China. Claudio Furtado, Director-G

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