Dear users, As the registration deadline for this year’s EPO’s East meets West forum http://www.epo.org/learning-events/events/conferences/emw2018/programme.html is approaching also the conference themes are becoming sharper and focused. Because many of the questions we receive are related to this y...

Dear users, EPO’s annual East meets West 2018 forum will take place as every year in Vienna on 19 and 20 April 2018! The event preparations are in full speed underway and we as conference organisers would like to keep you updated with new information and important event developments. During our two-...

Dear users, As in the previous years, the EPO will organise a two-day forum on Asian patent information in Vienna on 19 and 20 April 2018. Also this year Asian delegates will come to Vienna to share cutting edge technological developments in patent information in their patent offices. Besides China,...

Dear users, The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) https://www.tipo.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=2 has made pre-grant legal status and transaction data (gazette information) available in English for documents published since 1950. The information, previously only available in Chinese, has been integrate...

Dear users, The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has recently changed the frequency and the weekdays for publication of its patents, utility models and designs. As of 6 June 2017, laid-open patent applications, granted patents, registered utility models and designs are published twice a wee...

Dear users, Following the success of the Latin America training day in early 2017, the EPO's Asian Patent Information Services will again offer a full-day training course in Vienna, Austria in 2018. This time, the focus will be on patent systems, search and documentation from the ASEAN region. The t...

Dear users, We would like express our gratitude to all participants of today’s webinar on patent information from India! In today’s session we have covered not only the retrieval of patent information but also the history and the latest developments in the Indian patent law. For the users who have m...

Dear users, First of all, thanks to all of you who attended this week’s webinar on patent information from Russia. We appreciate your interest in the topic and your endurance for staying with us till the very end of this session which covered both patent information published by Rospatent and Eurasi...

Dear users, Last week our team held the first webinar on patent information from Brazil. This presentation was the first one out of the five scheduled online trainings offered by EPO’s Asian Patent Information Team under the BRICS countries series. BRICS stands for an association of five emerging ec...

Dear users, At the beginning of July the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM) has launched a fully automated process for issuance and electronic dispatch of the patent certificates. The certificates for patents issued after 03 July 2017 can be accessed via the official d...