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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#environmentalservices--Safety Management Group (SMG), an industry-leading safety, environmental, and health services firm, today announced that the company will exhibit ...

There is a group of products that, because of their specific character, can be protected as industrial designs, as well as patents. The Polish IP Law also provides the protection of utility models.

An underhanded tactic used for some time by shady Amazon sellers has been to file a bogus patent infringement claim against another seller, taking them out of action for several weeks or months while ...