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| Issue No. 26, December 2021 |
| APAA e-Newsletter |
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| Australian Patent Office in Favour of Blockchain…For the Moment! |
| Mark Williams, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick (Australia) |
| E-commerce giant Alibaba has had a win before the Australian Patent Office in relation to an application for their technology which improves privacy on the blockchain. In a recent decision, a Delegate of he Commissioner of Patents found that Alibaba’s … |
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| Unboxing the Australian PatentBox Scheme |
| Gordon Cottee, IP Solved (Australia) |
| From July 2022 Australia will join the pool of over 20 countries who have implemented various patentbox regimes. The Australian scheme will apply to companies operating in the medical and biotechnology sectors, and will provide for a concessional tax … |
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| Sound Mark Comprising Person’s Name – IP High Court Judgment |
| Tsutomu Takehara, Ai Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys (Japan) |
| 1. Issue Whether a sound mark comprising a linguistic element that may be understood as a person’s name is registrable. 2. Subject Application and file history Mark: musical notes and a linguistic element “Matsumoto Kiyoshi” in Japanese Kana letters … |
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| KIPO’s Reward System Against Counterfeit Goods |
| John W. Chung, Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners (Korea) |
| The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has been operating the Counterfeit-Report Reward System since 2006 in order to efficiently suppress distribution of counterfeit goods. Under this system, rewards are offered to individuals or organizations … |
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| Korea’s Trademark Applications Expected to be Doubled in 10 Years |
| Jiyeong Yi, Firstlaw P.C. (Korea) |
| The number of trademark applications continues to increase in Korea, with the prospect of more than doubling the number 10 years ago. The number of trademark applications filed at the Korean Intellectual Property Office in the first half of 2021 was 177,804, … |
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| How to Short-Cut Patent Prosecution in ASEAN: Ways to Accelerate Grant of a Patent, as Seen From a Singapore Perspective |
| Martin Schweiger, Schweiger & Partners (Singapore) |
| The ASEAN Patent Examination Co-operation (ASPEC) is an alternative to accelerate patent grant in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Myanmar is an ASEAN country but NOT part of the ASPEC co-operation.
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| Amendment On Taiwan Patent Examination Guidelines Of Medical Related Inventions For Determining Eligibility and Patentability |
| Ted J.T. Su, Wood & Wu Patent and Trademark Office (Taiwan) |
| Since the medical industry changes fast and many types of medical invention were filed in Taiwan, TIPO amended the patent examination guideline to clarify some ambiguity of evaluating eligibility and patentability by listing more examples and adding detailed … |
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| Losing Trademark Distinctiveness – New Regulations under the Draft of Revised IP Law |
| Tran Dieu Linh, Vision & Associates (Vietnam) |
| I remember when performing a quick search during my IELTS exam last year, I found an interesting trademark “” under Registration No. 353416 for services in Classes 35 & 41. The problem here is that the above-mentioned mark is protected in its … |
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