As from the end of 2020, trade marks registered in the European Union will no longer be protected in the United Kingdom. The UK will be establishing a comparable trade mark for all holders of existing registered EU trade marks. There will be no changes to protection in other EU...
Don’t fly into the same trap as British Airways – monitoring brands on the Internet
Two years, the British International Airlines Group, which includes the national carrier British Airways, suffered a major data breach in which hackers stole the details of thousands of customers, including credit card details. Not only did the hackers exploit a known vulnerability in Javascript on the airline’s website, according to...
Prioritising Trade Mark Registration for COVID-19 products and services.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced a major new programme to enable applicants for trade mark registration for brand names for COVID-19 related medical products and services. It will be possible for an trade mark applicant to request acceleration of the trade mark registration process and the fees for prioritizing the examination will be...
Filing Patents in Taiwan
Unlike most countries, Taiwan is not a member of the WIPO – the World Intellectual Property Organisation – and is therefore not a member of any of the international registration systems, such as the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system for filing patent applications or the Madrid system for seeking trade mark protection....
Abstract Ideas – Patent Rejections in the United States
In computer science and informatics objections, it’s been very common in the past few years for patent applications to be initially rejected on the grounds, that the invention is only an “abstract idea” and therefore ineligible for a patent. The US PTO issued patent eligibility guidelines 18 months ago in an attempt...