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If you are an EU SME willing to protect your brand in Chile, and you would like to know how to register your trade mark, how to enforce your brand in Chile, stay with us, since today’s blog is about the main changes in Chile for the trade mark system.

With Colombia, the EPO has found another permanent signatory of this international project, making the patent examination and grant procedures much more agile worldwide.

The most recent Amendment to Vietnam’s Law on Intellectual Property was passed by the National Assembly on 16 June 2022.

The Philippines dropped eight spots, to 59th out of 132 economies worldwide, in the World Intellectual Property Organization's annual Global Innovation Index (GII), from 51st position the previous year.

The degree of protection afforded to short word marks is low.
This is one of the key takeaways from The a2 Milk Company Limited v Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., according to Yvonne Tang, director of intellectual property at Drew & Napier in Singapore.

Thanks to the joint efforts of both IP Key Latin America and the EUIPO, the Mexican Institute of IP (IMPI) has just found common grounds with the criteria listed under the EUIPO's Common Communication (CP6) — Convergence on graphic representations of designs - Common Communication.

European IP Helpdesk team is happy to introduce you the ambassador of this month: Merit Fimberg-Espuch from Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

With more than 400 Geographical Indications (GIs) registered, campaign aims to raise awareness of the value and benefits of IP protection through GIs.

Nowadays global trade and exchange of information triggered the creation of a vast number of breakthrough technologies which derived in new fast growing high-tech sectors. Keeping the pace with this exponential evolution at a policy level is a challenge India intends to tackle promptly.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022 which shows Singapore as the 7th most innovative nation in the world and the second most innovative in Asia.

WIPO has just published its yearly Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022, now in its 15th Edition. This Index summarizes what is the curent state of the Innovation globally, ranking 132 countries. 

The 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) has just been published by the European Commission. The scoreboeard shows that innovation performance has increased for the whole EU by about 10% since 2015.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has just published a booklet that aims to provide users of the Unitary Patent with an overview of the most important provisions of the relevant national law in the Member States participating in the Unitary Patent scheme.

Case law from the General Court and recent Court decision over Lindt’s Easter bunny.

In keeping with the government’s strong focus on consumer protection in recent years, Cambodia’s consumer protection authority issued a notice on consumer product labeling on September 23, 2022.

Trademarks are an essential tool to distinguish all sorts of goods and services in the market. Yet, one crucial characteristic these signs need is that they must be “distinctive”.

The European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights recently published the latest edition of the Intellectual Property SME Scoreboard, do not miss the insights provided in this publication.

A lot is delegated and trusted to our patent attorneys and representatives when it comes to formalising intellectual property rights, yet sometimes it does not go as expected. In these cases, the applicant has some degree of protection.

The EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN[1]) are two dynamic regions that have built a strong trading and economic relationship over 45 years of cooperation. The EU is ASEAN’s third-largest trading partner...