US Trade Representative Issues Annual Report on Global IP Rights
For 2010 the US Trade Representative reviewed 77 trading partners for this year’s Special 301 Report, and placed 41 countries on either the Priority Watch List, Watch List, or the Section 306...
View ArticleIntellectual Property News from Eastern Europe
At the start of the new year I pledged that I would start to try and expand the scope of IPWatchdog.com to touch upon intellectual property matters outside the United States. In part this means trying...
View ArticleUSPTO and Russia Begin Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot
The Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) have agreed...
View ArticleForeign Priority Applications at the USPTO
Japan is also the country with the greatest number of foreign priority patent applications at the USPTO. With almost 1.1 million total foreign priority filings and over 389,000 foreign priority filings...
View ArticlePossibility of bomb in Russian plane crash will shift focus towards bomb...
Given all of these issues with these conventional bomb detection methods, what are the innovations being developed in response? One Israeli explosive detection tech developer, Tracense Systems, has...
View ArticleThe Need for Accountability at the World Intellectual Property Organization
Based on my experience I can report to you that the vast majority of the people at WIPO are competent, dedicated and deliver as required, many of them well beyond that. But this belies a profoundly...
View ArticleWorld Intellectual Property Indicators 2015: Design Patent Highlights
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its annual World Intellectual Property Indicators. The 2015 report dissects the macro trends associated with filing activity and...
View ArticleRealistic representation of a product: Grounds for refusal of trademark...
The distinctive character is one of the universally accepted criteria for registration of a sign as a trademark. This criterion is derived from the main function of a trademark, i.e. to distinguish the...
View ArticleA Changing Patent Landscape: U.S. no longer the most patent friendly...
At this moment in history almost everything we thought we knew about global patent protection is being challenged. The U.S. is not the most patent friendly jurisdiction in the world, instead being tied...
View ArticleUkraine: 25 Years After the USSR Collapse, Two Countries’ Banks Keep...
Two signs “Oschadbank” and “Sberbank” have the same meaning in Ukrainian and Russian, namely, the abbreviation of SBEREGATELNYY BANK (Savings Bank). After the Soviet Union disintegration in 1991, the...
View ArticleThe Costs of Obtaining and Maintaining a Patent in the BRICS Economies
BRICS is an acronym for an association of five countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Over the last 25 years, the BRICS economies have been at the forefront of a paradigm shift in...
View ArticleHouse Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Space Situational Awareness and Space...
A joint hearing of the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and the House Subcommittee on Space was recently convened to discuss the responsibilities of various U.S. government agencies on space...
View ArticleWorld Intellectual Property Indicators 2017: Design Patent Highlights
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its annual World Intellectual Property Indicators. For the second consecutive year, the number of design applications filed worldwide...
View ArticleRussian Court Rules Keyword Ads Generated by a Web Service Do Not Violate...
Businesses often resort to placing keywords in the html code of a web page, meta tags, or in contextual advertising templates for promoting their products on the internet. And in many cases, rivals...
View ArticleUS Trade Representative Issues Annual Report on Global IP Rights
For 2010 the US Trade Representative reviewed 77 trading partners for this year’s Special 301 Report, and placed 41 countries on either the Priority Watch List, Watch List, or the Section 306...
View ArticleIntellectual Property News from Eastern Europe
At the start of the new year I pledged that I would start to try and expand the scope of IPWatchdog.com to touch upon intellectual property matters outside the United States. In part this means trying...
View ArticleImplications of Russia’s New Rules on Geographical Indications for Champagne...
On July 2, 2021, amendments to the Federal Russian Law No. 468-FZ dated December 27, 2019 “On Viticulture and Winemaking in the Russian Federation” came into force. The amendments introduced two new...
View ArticleIP in the Crosshairs: Government Agencies Terminate Relationships with...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced last week that it will terminate engagement with the Russian IP Office (Rospatent) as well as the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) and...
View ArticleWhat it Means that Russian Businesses Can Now Legally Steal Intellectual...
Russian businesses now hold the key to pilfering, producing and profiting from western technologies. As of Monday, March 7, the Russian government has legalized intellectual property (IP) theft. With...
View ArticleRussia’s Invasion of Ukraine Reiterates Why Companies Must Rethink Their...
Every night for the last six weeks, the world has seen images and videos of the Russian military laying waste to Ukraine in what can only fairly be characterized as a medieval campaign of destruction....
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