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28.06.2023 | Patents, Trade Marks, Designs

Harmonisation and partial revision of guidelines as of 1 July 2023

As the various procedures and register maintenance work in the fields of trade marks, designs and...

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16.06.2023 | Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, IPI

The IPI simplifies IP rights management with new online services

Our popular online services for trade marks have been expanded. The Swiss Federal Institute of...

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    01.07.2022 | Trade Marks, ip-search, IPI

    From July 2022, the IPI will no longer offer trade mark searches

    The IPI has assisted applicants and proprietors of trade marks with professional trade mark searches...

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    06.10.2021 | ip-search

    New search report from 1 October 2021

    During the pilot phase, some of our clients took a closer look at the new format of our search...

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    26.03.2020 | ip-search

    You have our full support – even during the current extraordinary situation

    The coronavirus has profoundly changed working, social and everyday life for us all. So some...

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    10.08.2023 | Conference

    AIPPI World Congress from 22 to 25 October in Istanbul

    This year’s congress of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property –...

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    10.08.2023 | Conference

    CEPIUG 15th Anniversary Conference 17-18 September in Mailand (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano)

    The CEPIUG conference is the key event for European patent information professionals and will be...

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    09.08.2023 | Conference

    IP Service World, November 20-22, 2023 in Munich, Germany

    The 13th edition of the IP conference under the motto "IP connecting people" offers presentations,...

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