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 Union. It confirms that companies that own at least one IPR, such as patent, trademark, design, generate higher revenues per employee and pay higher wages [...]

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 is unable to prove use in Canada in the last three years of the trademark in the registered form, for all or part of the [...]

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 will be easier for designers to achieve protection in several different jurisdictions. Among other things, the Treaty will provide for a grace period of 12 [...]