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Community trade mark applications will now only be examined after they are paid for

Community trade mark applications will now only be examined after they are paid for

From November 24, OHIM will only examine trade mark applications and process any mail related to them after they are paid for. This means the Office can be more efficient, as it will no longer examine applications that ultimately will never be paid for. OHIM is a European Union agency that serves businesses across the […]

95 years of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic

95 years of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic

To mark the 95th anniversary of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic, a major conference on IP is being held in Prague today, with a full range of international speakers. The theme of the conference is “Protection of Intellectual Property in Europe”, and speakers include the Director General of the World Intellectual Property […]

Josef Kratochvil elected as Chairman of the Technical and Operational Support Committee of EPO

Josef Kratochvil elected as Chairman of the Technical and Operational Support Committee of EPO

The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation, in its meeting in The Hague on 25/26 June, extended the mandate of the President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoît Battistelli, by a further three years, to 30 June 2018. At the meeting, the Council expressed its continued support for the EPO’s quality/efficiency strategy adopted […]

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 […]

Czech Republic joined DesignView

Czech Republic joined DesignView

The Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic has today joined the DesignView database, becoming the eleventh National Office to do so. With the integration of almost 59.000 new designs from the Czech Republic, DesignView now boasts over 1.2 million designs in just one online database.   Source: OHIM

Czech Republic joined e-Learning

Czech Republic joined e-Learning

OHIM announced that the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic, the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania and the Polish Patent Office have joined the e-Learning for SMEs tool. The online tool informs users in a concise manner about the different types of IP rights applicable to the selected products or services and how to […]

The Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic – Part of the Common Harmonized Database on Classification

The Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic – Part of the Common Harmonized Database on Classification

On June 17, 2013 OHIM announced that the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic became the latest part of the Common Harmonized Database on Classification of Goods and Services. This is a result of the expansion in the Harmonization Project for Goods and Services. The complete Czech translations of the Common Harmonized Database is […]