Archive: April, 2014

France joined DesignView

France joined DesignView

The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has been integrated into the DesignView database, making approximately 700 000 French designs, dating from 1910 to the present day, available to its users. The French and Maltese offices are the 14th and 15th offices, respectively, to become part of DesignView, joining Benelux, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, […]

IP Marketplace disponible pour les utilisateurs polonais

IP Marketplace disponible pour les utilisateurs polonais

La plate-forme gratuite en ligne IP Marketplace existe depuis 2007 et est gérée par l’Office danois des brevets et des marques. IP Marketplace est une plate-forme libre d’acheter ou de vendre des droits de propriété intellectuelle et des licences. La plate-forme unit les gens intéressés par la vente et l’achat de droits exclusifs et de […]

Dropbox scans for copyright protected content

Dropbox scans for copyright protected content

The majority of the companies handle copyright infringement by deactivating or removing the concerned file. But Dropbox is focused on just deactivating the share feature and keeping the file. That is why, given this information users reconsider the reliability of cloud storage services. Dropbox uses an algorithm creating by cryptographic way a unique id for […]

IP Marketplace available for Polish users

IP Marketplace available for Polish users

The free online platform IP Marketplace exists since 2007 and is managed by the Danish Patent and Trademark Office. IP Marketplace is a free platform for buying or selling intellectual property rights and licenses. IP Marketplace unites people, interested in selling and buying exclusive IP rights and licenses and is a virtual place where potential partners […]

Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Project between IPO CZ and NBPR Finland

Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Project between IPO CZ and NBPR Finland

In October 2013 the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic (IPO CZ) and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR) concluded Memorandum of Understanding on the Patent Prosecution Highway. This Memorandum of Understanding came into effect on November 1, 2013. The Offices started also a PPH pilot program initiative on November 1, 2013 with one year duration and it may be extended with the mutual consent of the […]

Mémorandum d'Accord entre IACC et Les Douanes Françaises

Mémorandum d’Accord entre IACC et Les Douanes Françaises

La coalition internationale de lutte contre la contrefaçon annonce  que la semaine dernière à Paris, IACC et les douanes françaises ont signé un Mémorandum d’accord renforçant  leur coopération concernant  l’application de marques de commerce et de droits d’auteur. L’accord entre la IACC et les douanes françaises qui est  sans précédent, permettra d’améliorer la capacité des […]

Contest for publication in connection with the World Intellectual Property Day April 26, 2014

Contest for publication in connection with the World Intellectual Property Day April 26, 2014

Dear readers, join our Contest for publication in connection with the World Intellectual Property Day April 26, 2014 MOVIES – A GLOBAL PASSION is the motto of this year’s World Intellectual Property Day celebrated by WIPO. Send us your work – article, essay, photo, poster or any other kind of material dealing with film industry […]

Projet d`Autoroute du traitement des demandes de brevet entre IPO CZ et NBPR Finlande

Projet d`Autoroute du traitement des demandes de brevet entre IPO CZ et NBPR Finlande

En Octobre 2013, le Bureau de la propriété industrielle de la République Tchèque (CZ IPO) et l’Office national des brevets et de l’enregistrement en Finlande (NBPR) ont conclu Mémorandum d’Accord sur l’ Autoroute du traitement des demandes de brevet. Le Mémorandum d’accord est entré en vigueur le 1er Novembre 2013. Les bureaux démarrent aussi une […]

Romania joins DesignView

Romania joins DesignView

The registered designs data of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks of Romania (OSIM) has been integrated into the DesignView database, making OSIM the sixteenth IP Office to become part of the tool. Approximately 41,000 Romanian designs are now available in DesignView, bringing the total number of designs available to more than 2 million. […]

Law of June 26, 2003 on the Legal Protection of Plant Varieties (as amended up to Law of September 6, 2011)

as amended by: 1. Act of 9 June 2006 amending the Act on the legal protection of plant varieties and the Seed Act O.J. of 14 July 2006 No 126, item 877 – article 1 2. Act of 9 May 2007 amending the Act on copyright and related rights and certain other acts O.J of […]

Ustawa z dnia 4 lutego 1994 roku o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych

(tekst jednolity) Rozdziat 1 Przedmiot prawa autorskiego Art. 1. 1. Przedmiotem prawa autorskiego jest kazdy przejaw dziatalnosci tworczej o indywidualnym charakterze, ustalony w jakiejkolwiek postaci, niezaleznie od wartosci, przeznaczenia i sposobu wyrazenia (utwor). 2. W szczegolnosci przedmiotem prawa autorskiego sq utwory: 1) wyrazone stowem, symbolami matematycznymi, znakami graficznymi (literackie, publicystyczne, naukowe, kartograficzne oraz programy komputerowe); […]

Law No. 83 of February 4, 1994 on Copyright and Neighboring Rights (as last amended on October 21, 2010)

(Consolidated text) Chapter 1. The Object of Copyright Article 1. 1. The object of copyright shall be any manifestation of creative activity of individual nature, established in any form, irrespective of its value, purpose or form of expression (work). 2. In particular, the object of copyright shall include: 1) works expressed in words, mathematical symbols, […]

Law of June 30, 2000 on Industrial Property (as last amended by Law of 23 January 2004, and Law of June 29, 2007)

Article 1 1. This Law regulates: (i) the relationships in the field of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits, (ii) the principles on which entities may accept rationalisation proposals and remunerate creators thereof; (iii) the responsibilities and organisation of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, hereinafter […]

Law of June 9, 2000 on Amendment to Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights

Article 1. In the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights (Dz.U. 1994 No. 24, item 83, No. 43, item 170, and Dz.U. 1997 No. 43, item 272, and No. 88, item 554) the following amendments are hereby introduced: 1) article 21 shall read as follows: “Article 21 1. Radio and television […]

Law No. 46 of January 9, 1993 on Patent Agents

Part I General provisions 1.- This Law regulates the principles of the practicing of the patent agent profession, rights and obligations of patent agents, rules and procedure for the acquirement of the qualifications for the practicing of this profession, as well as the rules of activity of the patent agents self-administration. 2.- (1) . The […]