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European Cooperation: enhanced front and back office systems at the SPTO

On 15 October the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), with support from the EUIPO’s European cooperation projects, completed its technical stack upgrade of the designs front office system. This followed a set of improvements to the back office system on 10 October.The technical stack upgrade

Beijing: 142 enterprises has insuring intellectual property insurance in 2020 so far

As the reporter known from the Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Bureau, from the start of this year Beijing started the intellectual property insurance pilot, there have been 142 scientific enterprises insured 1660 intellectual property insurance. The types of insurance involve patent execution in

CNIPA and European Patent Office issued joint declaration

CNIPA and European Patent Office pilot program will commence on December 1, 2020. Chinese patent applicants will be able to choose the European Patent Office as the international searching authority. CNIPA and EPO will initiate a two-year pilot program. According to the program, the international ap

Appotronics won the first patent dispute of Sci-Tech Innovation Board

Last for nearly fifteen months, the first Sci-Tech Innovation Board patent dispute, which paid much attention, has achieved significant progress. On October 19, Appotronics published the announcement that Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court has trialed that the company has not infringed the patent

China (Nantong) Intellectual Property Rights Protection Center planned to operate in trial at the end of the year, the patent authorization period will hopefully be shortened for more than eighty percent

In the past, applying for an invention patent would be taken the waiting period of two to three years to get the result. At the end of February this year, Nantong was approved to build the China (Nantong) IPR Protection Center. Until now, the infrastructure construction has been completed and i