On March 1, 2024, updated Guidelines for Examination (“Guidelines”) in the European Patent Office (“EPO”) went into effect. The updated Guidelines included substantive changes with broad implications ...

The volume of changes to the European Patent Office 2022 Guidelines is smaller than in previous years’ editions and therefore the Guidelines are appreciably stable now, although some changes have been ...

On October 30 2017, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) published its revised Examination Guidelines, following legislative changes made to the Singapore Patents Act. The key ...

This update highlights the key changes for trademark owners and practitioners, including the standards applicable to the ex officio re-examination procedure recently introduced in the Trademark Act.

“Video-conference has been made the standard means for oral proceedings at the examination and opposition level, even for the taking of evidence, thus rendering the workplace of the patent attorney ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released updated interim guidelines for determining whether an invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

The Office of the Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency concludes that given the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investment and role in the secondary market for multifamily loans ...

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The Intellectual Property Office has promulgated the Examination Guidelines on Non-conventional Trademarks, based on the original Examination Guidelines on Three-Dimensional, Colour and Sound ...