On October 1, 2023, the regulations for implementing the provisions on the administration of enterprise name registration issued by the China Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) came into force. The Rules apply to enterprises that need to register activities in China, including all domestic entities and branches of foreign companies. As a fundamental principle, the Rules establish that the declaration [...]

Under the current Rule 126(2) EPC, relating to notification by postal services, Communications sent by the EPO are deemed to have been delivered on the tenth day following the date printed on the Communication ("Ten-Day Rule"), effectively postponing by ten days any time limit calculated from the date printed on the document. Due to the instantaneous notifications in the digital [...]

The advent of the electric car also has effects on corporate brands. In recent months, Porsche has tried to record the hiss generated by its electric model when accelerating. However, the EUIPO rejected it for lack of distinctiveness, i.e. of particular sound elements worthy of being memorable. In a few years we will see whether this sound may have acquired [...]

The draft law amending the Industrial Property Code has been definitively approved. The reform pursues the strengthening of the competitiveness of the country's economic system, the protection of industrial property and the administrative simplification and digitalisation of procedures. The measure, among the novelties introduced, provides: with the new text of Article 65, that also in Italy, as in the rest [...]