On July 4, 2023, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced in Valencia (Spain) the year’s winners of the prestigious “European Inventor Award”. This prize, designed to reward the creativity of inventors, has been awarded every year since 2006 to inventors in various categories: industry, research, non-EPO countries, small and medium-sized enterprises […]
As a reminder, a new prize was created by the EPO in 2022, the Young Inventor’s Prize (any field of technology), designed to reward inventors aged 30 or under at the time of the award. According to the EPO, “the winner receives the sum of EUR 20,000. The second and third […]
The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) came into force on June 1st, 2023. The Unitary Patent System currently makes it possible to obtain a single form of protection in the 17 countries of the European Union that have ratified the UPC Agreement, based on the […]
Pierre Roger, Industrial Property Attorney at ADELPHE IP, took part in Oséades® 2023, the annual meeting of business actors (managers, creators, start-ups, company buyers…) which took place in Haute-Savoie from May 30 to June 9, 2023. For more information : https://www.oseades.com/
Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement signed between France and China – On June 1, 2023, the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement signed between the French “Institut national de la propriété industrielle” (INPI) and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) came into force. This agreement, which aims to speed up the […]
The Apostille Convention (Convention of October 5, 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents) will come into force for China on November 7, 2023. The Convention, which now has 125 Contracting Parties including France, aims to abolish the requirement for legalization of foreign public documents (a cumbersome and […]
On July 6, 2023, the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the International Protection of Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications will come into force for Tunisia. Tunisia’s appellations of origin and geographical indications will thus be protected internationally by a single, simpler and less costly registration in all the […]
On August 1, 2023, the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement (1999) will enter into force for Brazil. It is recalled that the Hague System allows the protection of designs of economic actors at the international level (territory of the contracting parties) by filing a single application, in one language and […]
The “Swissness” regulation in force since January 1, 2017 has strengthened the protection of indications of source (Swiss, made in Switzerland, Swiss quality…). The same applies to direct or indirect references to Swiss origin such as the Swiss cross, images of the Matterhorn… More specifically for foodstuffs, the main criteria for […]
For the record, on March 15, 2023, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) entered into force for Mauritius – https://adelphe-ip.com/en/patent-cooperation-treaty-mauritius/ MAURITIUS now joins the Madrid Protocol which will enter into force for it on May 6, 2023. It is recalled that the Madrid system allows to benefit from a simplified, centralized and […]