In many countries the time required to secure patent protection often exceeds two years. For technologies in which change occurs rapidly, a delay of more than two years from filing to grant can ...

Recent guidelines from the China National Intellectual Property Administration, effective Jan. 1, have again put the spotlight on the value of Chinese utility models and the interplay between utility ...

A utility model can be obtained in Spain for inventions relating to products, not methods, and for a term of 10 years. The requirements to be met by a utility model in Spain are slightly different to ...

The statistics on utility models are staggering, but does this IP right provide a useful tool for protecting innovation or merely pointless pieces of paper to decorate inventors’ labs? James Nurton ...