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Sections (36.01 - 36.09) last updated: April 2021.
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Sections (76A.01 - 76A.10) last updated: January 2024.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
Employees’ inventions.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
Publication date 20 November 2024.
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
Maximise innovation with the Lambert toolkit collaboration and consortium agreement guidance.
Includes chapters on applying for International registrations, design representation, deferment of publication, examination, refusals and renewals.
Includes classifying designs under the Locarno system.
Section (11.01 - 11.64 ) last updated: August 2018.
Sections (3.01 - 3.38) last updated: October 2019.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
Section (280-01 280.05) last updated: October 2021.
Patentability.
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