From January 1, 2026, also Maldives will have their own Industrial Property Office, allowing trademarks, patents, designs, and copyrights to be registered there. This will eliminate the system of cautionary notices that, up to now, [...]
Ethiopia joins the Paris Convention and the Madrid Protocol on International Trademarks effective August 15, 2025. The country, which previously had nearly zero IP protection, will now be subject to designation for the most important [...]
Lady Gaga launched the new Album Mayhem in March 2025, promoting it with a tour and the sale of clothing bearing this name. This was not appreciated by Lost International LLC, an American company that [...]
In a crowded Registry like the Chinese one, the forfeiture action for non-use has been a relatively cheap tool to open the way to the registration of new trademarks, often rejected due to the presence [...]
A new decree has launched the version dedicated to the foreign use of the “Historical Trademark of National Interest” with a specific logo "Italian Historical Trademark" which, like its twin in Italian, can be used [...]
The Ministry of Industry introduced, on the initiative of the Association of Historical Trademarks of Italy, the "foreign" version of the Historical Trademark. In short, the owners of trademarks included in the special Register of [...]
Between March 5, 2025 and April 10, 2025, the Libyan Trademark Office will not accept new applications, while it will continue to process renewals and oppositions.
A recent study, published in January 2025 by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), analyses the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and firm performance in the European [...]
A pilot project of the Canadian Trademark Office (CIPO) provides that the Office itself will randomly select certain registrations on a monthly basis to initiate a revocation proceeding for non-use (“Sec. 45”). If the owner [...]
On November 22, 2024, a WIPO Diplomatic Conference of Member States adopted a new Treaty referred to as “Riyadh Design Law Treaty”. The Treaty aims to make international design procedures more predictable, so that it [...]
