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We are pleased to inform you that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) launched an Anti-counterfeiting BLOCKATHON Forum. More information on the BLOCKATHON Forum can be found at the following link .
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What Is a Consensual Patent? A special form of patent protection in Croatia is a consensual patent. Its main feature is that it is granted without substantive examination , i.e. on the basis of an agreement (consensus) of the public, if there are no
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Freedom to operate search (FTO) When a company wants to enter a new market segment it is useful to conduct at least one search of this type. The customer needs to define a technical area precisely, and the search is limited to patents in force (existing
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Infringement search Companies often develop their own product/process/use, and wanting to start returning the resources spent for R&D overlook possibility that such an invention might have been already protected, and that the placing of such a product
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Technology watch This type of service represents a series of patent searches in regular time intervals usually restricted to one technical area. The search is done by repeating identical query in defined time periods which results in larger number of
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Search by the trademark owner A search type that shows who are the owners of the applied for or registered trademarks on the Croatian territory. This search is an ideal tool for monitoring the competition. Companies often want to know who else is present
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Competition watch This type of service represents a series of patent searches in regular time intervals usually restricted to one (sometimes more) applicant(s). The search is done by repeating identical query in defined time periods which results in larger
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Similarity/identical search service In accordance with the prescribed procedure for trademark registration, SIPO does not examine the identity/similarity of your trademark with/to the previously applied for/registered trademarks. That is why the search
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On 27 April 2021, the European Commission published the Report on the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Third Countries . Periodic publication of these reports makes one of the activities of the Commission intended to strengthen the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
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Economic rights of the author Pursuant to the Copyright and Related Rights Act , economic rights of the author include in particular: • right of reproduction – the exclusive right of making one or more copies of copyright works, in whole or in part, directly