Utility model protection is an attractive option for inventions with obvious technical solutions. However, applicants must be aware that both non-technical features and technical features without a technical effect will be excluded from the novelty assessment.
June 02 2021
A new law regulating industrial property rights in Mexico was published in the Official Gazette on July 1 2020.
In addition to notable improvements in respect to the protection of patents, trademarks and other industrial property rights, the new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property has significantly altered the possibilities for claiming damages arising from the infringement of trademarks and other industrial property rights, making potential awards for such damages a far more realistic possibility.
Under the defunct Industrial Property Law, the owner of a registered trademark or other industrial property right had two options for seeking redress for infringement.
EUIPO adds 32m Chinese marks to TMview database
China s IP office, CNIPA, has made its trademark data
available on the TMview search tool, an EUIPO database launched in 2010.
The EUIPO announced the update on Wednesday, May 19. TMview now contains data from 75 participating offices, including 96.4
million trademarks, 32 million of which came from CNIPA.
CNIPA commissioner Shen Changyu and EUIPO executive director
Christian Archambeau held a virtual meeting to celebrate the inclusion of the
Chinese trademarks into TMview.
Archambeau said: “The go-live of Chinese trademark data in
the TMview database is a tribute to the mutually beneficial cooperation between
China and Europe in general, and more specifically between the CNIPA and EUIPO.