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The Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP) of the Republic of Korea, headed by Minister KIM Yong Sun, announced that it held a series of bilateral meetings on June 10 with its key cooperation partner offices attending the IP5 Heads of Office Meeting* held in Tokyo, Japan.

The Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP), led by Minister KIM Yong Sun, announced that partial amendments to the Enforcement Rules of the Trademark Act and the Enforcement Rules of the Design Protection Act will take effect starting on June 17, 2026. The amendments aim enhance the international recognition and credibility of trademark and design certificates and streamline related application procedures.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s trademark serial number system provides an eight-digit unique identifier for every trademark application. Over the years, we’ve usually assigned numbers in ascending order. However, with applications now starting with the 99-series, you may be wondering what happens next. On July 18, 2026, the USPTO will begin issuing a new range of serial numbers for applications filed under sections 1 or 44 of the Trademark Act.

The revised law, passed at a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the national legislature, will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027. Consisting of 87 articles in nine chapters, the revision highlights key issues in the trademark field. It stipulates the work requirements, regulates the filing of registrations, streamlines the procedures for authorization and validation, tightens administration and enhances the protection of exclusive trademark rights. A trademark is a major type of intellectual property. By the end of 2025, the Chinese mainland had over 49.8 million valid registered trademarks.

The "Pilot Program for Accelerated Examination of Invention Patent Applications by Women," launched on July 1, 2025, is set to expire on June 30, 2026. Since the program's inception, the average time from application submission by female applicants to the receipt of examination results has been only 44.2 days, demonstrating excellent results. To encourage women to engage in innovative invention and accelerate their access to patent protection, and following an assessment of current examination capacity, the program has been revised and will undergo a renewed pilot run until June 30, 2027.

MOIP Announces Core Achievements Marking the 1st Anniversary of the National Sovereignty Government

The standards and patents programme at the European Patent Office (EPO) is providing unique insights into how the high-stakes, global interplay between technology standards, digital connectivity and interoperability shapes market adoption of game-changing new technologies. The study will be presented today at a major Euractiv event on European competitiveness in emerging technologies, comprising one of several major programme milestones.

The Public Records Division (PRD) processes and fills orders for both certified and uncertified copies of United States Patent and Trademark Office documents, records assignments and other documents related to title. his is an update of actual processing times for orders filled during the month of May 2026.

To increase the certainty and predictability concerning patent rights and to encourage the timely filing of grantable petitions, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is revising its practice of requiring additional information for delays in taking certain actions in patent applications and patents from requiring additional information for delays exceeding two years to requiring additional information for delays exceeding one year. These petitions include petitions to revive applications, accept delayed maintenance fee payments, accept delayed priority or benefit claims, and excuse an applicant’s failure to act within prescribed time limits in connection with international design applications.

USPTO updates Director Review process to extend the deadline for decisions instituting trial from 14 to 30 days

In this decision, the Director (1) waives the deadline for filing all requests for Director Review of decisions to 30 days; (2)?finds that the filing deadline may be extended in exceptional circumstances and where the trial has not progressed meaningfully; and (3) applies Hulu, LLC v. Piranha Media Distribution, LLC, IPR2024-01252, Paper 27 (Director Apr. 17, 2025) (informative) to vacate institution and deny the petitions because the district court already had found the challenged claims invalid.?The Director further explains exceptional circumstances warranting an additional extension may include: dismissal of all or substantially all claims in a co-pending litigation, findings of fact and conclusions of law that render all or substantially all challenged claims invalid, and a violation of a Sotera stipulation.

IP Australia has updated Part 28 of the Trade Marks Manual of Practice and Procedure following the High Court's decision in Zip Co Limited v Firstmac Limited [2026] HCA 16. The updates clarify how the honesty element of honest concurrent use under s 44(3)(a) of the Trade Marks Act 1995 is to be assessed.

The EPO’s new Data Desk provides unique insights into global technology trends, patent filings and the latest deep tech developments in a single, user-friendly platform. Developed by the EPO Observatory, it offers users free, full access to explore, analyse and visualise trends in greater granularity than ever before, across all countries and technology fields. The tool was launched yesterday in Paris at VivaTech, Europe’s largest annual startup and technology fair, where the EPO participated for the third consecutive year in partnership with the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France).

The new dollar amount of the search fee required by the ILPO will be $1,446 and will go into effect July 1, 2026.

Are you an inventor preparing to file a patent application? In part five of this eight-part series, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) experts will discuss the elements of the claim, show examples of claim illustrations from issued U.S. patents, and help participants develop a better appreciation of how a patent examiner views a claim.

To make the classification of goods and services more timely and to integrate with the latest market trends, a review of the names of goods/services designated for trademark registration has been conducted. A total of 27 items have been added and 7 items have been deleted. In addition, 14 group/subclass names or remarks have been added.