Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress on March 12, 1984 and amended in accordance with the Decision by the 27th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on Amending the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China on September 4, 1992.

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Adopted in Geneva, on 2nd June 2000, the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) comes as the result of a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) initiative. Its aim is to harmonise the formal requirements set by patent offices for granting patents, and to streamline the procedures for obtaining and maintaining a patent.

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on June 1, 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and one intergovernmental organization, the European Patent Organisation. Its aim is to harmonize formal procedures such as the requirements to obtain a filing date for a patent application, the form and content of a patent application, and representation.

The European Patent Office (EPO) provides a uniform application procedure for individual inventors and companies seeking patent protection in up to 38 European countries. It is the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation and is supervised by the Administrative Council.

Our mission is to maintain the protection of intellectual property rights to the highest international standards, so that Hong Kong, China remains a place where creativity and talent can flourish; to provide high-quality and responsive patent, trademark and designs registration services to the public in Hong Kong, China; to promote awareness of intellectual property rights of the individual, and a respect for the rights of others.

The aim of industrial property (IP) system (general term for patent, utility model, design, and trademark systems) is to contribute to the nation's industrial development through adequate protection and effective utilization of inventions and other forms of intellectual creations. To help promote science and technology, the IP system is expected to play an increasingly important role in Japan in the 21st century.

We are the official government body responsible for granting Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the United Kingdom (UK). These rights include: Patents, Designs, Trade marks, Copyright.

A patent is an instrument that is used to protect an invention. It is used by a Patent Office to prevent inventions being copied and reproduced. The State allows inventors to secure protection for their inventions provided that the inventor discloses the details of the invention to the Patent Office. The document that describes the invention is referred to as a patent specification.

On March 12, 1993, in Moscow, a meeting of the heads of the Governments of the CIS countries was held, where the Agreement on measures concerning the protection of industrial property and the setting-up of the Interstate Council on the Protection of Industrial Property was signed.

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), a Special Operating Agency (SOA) associated with Industry Canada, is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property in Canada. CIPO's areas of activity include: Patents cover new inventions (process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter), or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention.

Public perception of the patent system has swung widely over the years from highs, such as those in the late nineteenth century when Mark Twain could write "a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn't travel anyway but sideways or backwards" to lows in the mid twentieth century when it could be written "the only patent that is valid is one which this (the Supreme) Court has not yet been able to get its hands on." The value and philosophical basis underpinning the patent system has been a matter for debate over the years.

The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting patent practitioner and those working in the field of patent law in matters related to patent law, its practice and technological advances.

American Patent and Trademark Law Center is a professional association of independent registered patent attorneys and specializes in patent, trademark, copyright and related business and government contract matters, such as licenses. We have both in house counsel and independent counsel who we may engage for clients in need of expertise in specific patent and trademark areas.

Patently-O is the most popular patent law blog and a daily read for over ten thousand patent law professionals from every major innovative corporation, IP Law Firm and world patent office.

This page provides direct access to agency press releases and newsletters so that you can easily keep abreast of patent prosecution and legal developments worldwide. Additional substantive updates on important developments in patent law are provided via law firm memos and articles, and The Daily Patent Newsfeed. A regular visit to this page is a must for all patent lawyers and intellectual property managers.

Our goal is to provide you with the most diverse and current resource center for the professional patent law community and inventors. The Patent Law Portal is the definitive guide for patent information required by inventors and patent professionals alike.

Patents grant an inventor the right to exclude others from producing or using the inventor's discovery or invention for a limited period of time. U.S. patent laws were enacted by Congress under its Constitutional grant of authority to protect thediscoveries of inventors.

Software is a global business. Patents are increasingly the protection of choice; as a consequence, international software patent laws are of growing importance to software vendors. This article focuses on European patent law and how it differs from United States law in regards to software technology. Statutes and relevant case law of both unions are discussed and compared, providing an introductory secondary source for scholars and practitioners.

Full text of the U.S. Patent Act.

Basic facts about patents; How to get a patent; Types of patents; Registered patent attorneys & agents;

United States patent law was established "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" as provided in the United States Constitution. Congress implemented these protections as a first-to-invent patent legal framework. By contrast, all other national patent laws are first-to-file systems. The provisions of the law are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) and give authority for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This system is permitted by Article One, Section 8(8) of the U.S. Constitution.

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