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Whenever a new product is born, a name needs to be found for it. Though somewhat similar to the birth of a child, where you try to find a name differing from those of other children in the family, the problem of naming a product is much more complicated, since all similar products are, in a sense, sisters and brothers of your product. Besides, you need to raise, care for and watch over the name of your product, if you want to avoid future complications.
Read MoreThe more of it you give away, the richer you become. What is it? Well, love, for one. But looking from a different angle, franchising could be a good answer, too! If you give away the business experience and trade mark of a successful undertaking, both you and your partner might become richer. In other respects, love and franchise are not the same. Love is always free, but you have to pay for a real franchise.
Read MoreAt the end of the transition period (1 January 2021), registered EU Trademarks will no longer be valid in the UK. On 1 January 2021, UKIPO (Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom) will create a comparable UK trademark for every registered EU trade mark (EUTM). EU TM owners need to consider now how these new 'cloned' UK TMs and applications are going to affect their TM strategy.
Read MoreThe Hungarian constitutional court brought a decision (Friday, June 29, 2018) on the compatibility of the planned unitary patent system and the Hungarian constitution, or, to be more precise: how the suggested Unified Patent Court (UPC) would fit in the Hungarian legal regime. The bad news: it doesn’t.
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The Unitary Patent will bring a significant change in the European patent system as we know it today. Besides its indisputable advantages, it has its risks and possible disadvantages as well. In our post we have gathered the most frequent questions and answered them.
Ah, the Holiday Season. The time where families get together to celebrate with joy beside the Christmas tree with a face, observed by the cameras hidden in the ornaments. Ehm… what? Oh yeah, we just imagined the Holiday season with a few of the best (worst) Christmas inventions ever. Because if you dive deep into the patent database with over 100 million documents, you ought to find some weird stuff…
Read MoreUnfortunately, ideas cannot be patented. To have a patent, you will need to redefine your idea as a technical invention or an industrially applicable method.
Read MoreWhen it comes to protecting ideas, there are many different ways to do that depending on your invention and the markets your company operates in. In this blog we will show you 7 different solutions.
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