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USPTO will not give up

By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on June 10, 2008

Last fall, the US Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, announced that they would make drastic changes in the rules concerning patent applications. Briefly, the USPTO rules mean that the applicant’s rights to file different forms of continuation applications are severely limited. The rules were meant to become effective on 1 November 2007. Tons of companies...

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Field all your players if you want to win the game

By AWA | Posted on May 12, 2008

Imagine a football manager who bemoans the fact that the opposition is invincible and his team never wins. Yet match after match he fields only nine players instead of the full complement of eleven. He’d be branded as a madman – and his career would probably be very short-lived. The war against the pirates is...

Tags: counterfeits, ctm registration, EU application

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