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15.02.2023 | Trade Marks

The trade mark trap and how to avoid it

Young entrepreneurs in Switzerland often run into problems with their trade marks. With far-reaching...

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13.02.2023 | Training, Event

Zoom event ‘Top tips to protect your business ideas’

You often hear people using the term ‘intellectual property’ or ‘IP’ in the entrepreneurial world....

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Minor updates to the Swiss Patent Examination Guidelines

02.09.2014 | ip-search

Minor updates have recently been made to the patent examination guidelines applicable at the Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property. An erratum at the end of the document lists the changes made.

The adapted version of the guidelines is now available online (available in German and French only / pdf 1300 kB).

 

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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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    26.07.2022 | Conference

    IPO Annual Meeting from 18 to 20 September 2022 in Los Angeles, California

    At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) rom 18 to 20...

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    18.01.2022 | Conference

    PATINFO 2022

    The 44th Colloquium of the Ilmenau University of Technology on Patent Information and Industrial...

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    17.08.2021 | Conference

    IP Service World, 22–23 November 2021 in Munich

    ‘IP connecting people’ is the title of the 11th edition of this event, where our expert Dr Anna...

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