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IP4all Weekly Bulletin
Archive: August, 2015
Back Office for industrial designs in Greece
The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (GR OBI) has recently gone live with the Back Office for Designs, tool developed under the framework of Cooperation Fund. The new system supports the complete lifecycle of industrial designs and facilitates application examination, recordals lifecycle as well as renewal and expiration automations. Six intellectual property offices across the European […]
Impact of counterfeiting in the Clothing, Footwear and Accessories Sector
The activities of wholesale and retail trade of clothing and footwear are important across the EU, whilst a large proportion (approximately 50%) of manufacture is located in Italy. Of the 647 thousand enterprises in this sector, 64% are engaged in retailing. For the EU as a whole, the estimated total counterfeiting effect amounts to 9.7% […]
Performance result of OHIM services
OHIM published the performance result of our services for the second quarter of 2015, in terms of timeliness, quality and accessibility. The overall timeliness of operations appears to be maintained despite the increase in number of applications compared to the previous quarter. During the first quarter, the trend presented a much slower growth in applications […]
Latest UK trends in online streaming and downloading
A new survey, published this week by the UK Intellectual Property Office, highlights the latest UK trends in online streaming and downloading, showing: an increase of more than 10% in take up of legal services since 2013 an increase of 6% in online consumption, of both legal and illegal content 1 in 5 still access […]
New Patent Law in Spain
Last July 13th, 2015 the Spanish Senate approved a new Spanish Patent Law. The new Law will not come into force until April 1st, 2017. The new Law introduces, inter alia, the following changes: 1. It becomes compulsory to request the full substantive examination on novelty and inventive step of all Spanish patent applications. Until […]