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On March 24, 2015 the Enlarged Board of Appeal in decision G3/14 gave its opinion on examining the clarity of amended claims during opposition and opposition appeal proceedings. 10 August 2015
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Patent owners in China can enforce their rights through two routes: judicial (ie, Chinese courts) and administrative (ie, local intellectual property offices). The current measures for the administrative enforcement of patents came into effect on February 1, 2011. The State Intellectual Property Office revised these measures and the new version of them took effect on July 1, 2015. 10 August 2015
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The alarm bells started ringing just over a year ago. Canada was finally taking the plunge—joining the Madrid Protocol, the Nice Agreement and the Singapore Treaty, and harmonising its intellectual property framework with the laws of its major trading partners. 10 August 2015
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How to maximise protection of software-implemented inventions in Brazil is a concern of technology companies. Applicants should seek patent protection that allows enforcement of product claims against free riders without having to upset hardware costumers or to deal with contributory infringement and inducement. 10 August 2015
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Since the launch of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programme, the European Patent Office (EPO) has recently made agreements with Israel, Canada, Mexico and Singapore to accelerate prosecution of patent applications. 1 May 2015
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On February 11, 2015 China’s State Intellectual Property office (SIPO) held a press conference to disclose statistics for patent filing and granting in 2014. In that year, SIPO received 928,000 applications for invention patents, which was an increase of 12.5% from 2013. 1 May 2015
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It is not possible to cover everything that is happening at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in a short article. 1 May 2015
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