IP Financial Friday: Jan 20

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 20 JANUARY,2023 100% NOT WRITTEN BY CHATGPT We wanted to see if ChatGPT could write our blog,but it was at capacity, so you’re stuck with humans […]
IP Financial Friday: Jan 13

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 13 JANUARY,2023 US PATENT GRANTS AT 4 YEAR LOW IFI CLAIMS released its annual report on global patent activity this week. Unsurprisingly, COVID and USPTO backlogs […]
IP Financial Friday: Jan 6

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 06 JANUARY, 2023 REDUCED SMALL AND MICRO ENTITY FEES IN US On December 29th, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 […]
IP Financial Friday: December 30

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 30 DECEMBER, 2022 HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s been a pretty slow week in the IP world, but things will kick off quickly after the new year, including […]
IP Financial Friday: December 23

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 23 DECEMBER,2022 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Much of the IP community slows down the last week of the year, PTOS are no exception. Below are the holiday schedules for […]
Big Changes Coming to Canadian Copyright Laws

Changes Coming to Canadian Copyright Law Beginning December 30, the term of copyright protection in Canada goes from life-plus-fifty years to life-plus-seventy years. In other words, works will be protected […]
IP Financial Friday: December 9

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 09 DECEMBER, 2022 UNITARY PATENT COURT DELAY December 5: The UPC has been pushed back two months to give users more time to get the required […]
IP Financial Friday: December 2

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 02 DECEMBER, 2022 NOVEMBER CURRENCY ROUNDUP The dollar generally weakened throughout November, increasing costs for US companies paying USD to third-parties for international annuity payments. For […]
IP Financial Friday: November 25

IP FINANCIAL FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER, 2022 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Things are a bit slower than normal in the United States as everyone eats too much turkey and pumpkin pie. This […]
The New Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Approaches!

THE UNITARY PATENT COURT (UPC) APPROACHES! The EPO has set the start date of the transition to the UPC to begin on January 1, 2023. As of that date, patent […]