We provide a quick and easy way to protect your product in Europe by European patents and European trademarks. Whether you already have registered rights outside of Europe or you are just making the first steps towards protecting your product, we can help.

There are many small business owners that want to register a trademark (???) to ensure that no one else can profit on their name or logo. However, many small business owners do not know where to begin the trademark registration process.

Perform a Trademark Search. When you first conceive of a mark that you would like to use to market your goods or services, immediately check to see if anyone else is using it. There's no sense wasting your time with the rest of the procedure if someone else has already registered it.

The Recorder Zusha Elinson March 11, 2009 by law.com
Rambus has spent about $300 million on lawyers in its eight-year patent fight against a group of big memory chip makers. On Tuesday afternoon, the Los Altos, Calif., chip designer inched a little closer to getting some payoff.

The number of inventions patented last year by University at Buffalo researchers more than doubled from the prior year.

Researchers patented 21 inventions in 2008, up from nine in 2007, the university said

The question of the protection of slogans, which are often used as trademarks by companies, has been at the centre of a number of disputes on both sides of the Atlantic recently. “Can slogans qualify for trademark protection?” and “How can brand owners obtain registration?” are two questions that courts in Europe and the USA have been facing recently.

As with other industrial property rights, a formal procedure is required for trademark protection. An application to register a trademark should be filed with the competent national office, usually the same office that handles patent registration.

What is a trademark or service mark?
A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination of words, phrases, symbols or designs, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others.

The time limit for publications of national patent applications in Vietnam has changed. An official notice of the National Office of Intellectual Property concerning, among other things, the validity of Power of Attorney, was released.

Violations of intellectual property (IP) in Vietnam have become serious while no effective solution has been found to stop them. Doan Nang, Director of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s (MST)