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

The Legal Board of Appeal of the EPO has issued in writing its decision in case J 8/20, which confirmed that under the European Patent Convention (EPC) an inventor designated in a patent application must be a human being. The decision, announced after hearing the appellant in public oral proceedings

Intellectual Property Protection FormsIn recent years, while non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are in intense discussions in public, the associated trademark registration activity has exploded. In the U.S., just in January-February 2022, the number of NFT trademark applications increased by 150% compared t

Recently, the CNIPA agreed that Hunan Province and Xiangtan City carry out the construction of national intellectual property protection centers for the purpose of rapid collaborative protection of intellectual property rights for the advanced manufacturing and new material industries, intelligent m