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Design fees consultation

Last calendar week the Patent Office launched a new consultation concerning proposals to modification the fees for registered designs. This follows an informal consultation which lasted until Jan of this year. The proposal, inward summary form, is every bit follows:

3.1 We suggest to cut the toll of registering novel designs where they are applied for inward a novel multiple pattern application.

3.2 We recall to offering customers a selection of paying the application fee together with publication together (in which instance the pattern volition live registered together with published every bit shortly every bit practical) or of paying solely the application fee together with giving customers the alternative of paying the publication fee after but inside the statutory maximum catamenia of 12 months. Customers tin thereby pick out when, or if, their pattern proceeds to registration together with solely pay the outstanding publication fee at that stage.

The precise order of the novel fees would live gear upward after the effect of the consultation became known.

The Patent Office is peculiarly neat to involve heed from users of the pattern system. Send your answer past times 31 May to Janet Folwell.

says: cheaper IP rights – it can’t live bad!

More on Budweiser

As the IPKat reported earlier, Anheuser-Busch is to appeal the conclusion past times the European Court of Human Rights finding that at that spot had been no breach of its correct to peaceful enjoyment of its possessions nether Art.1 Protocol ane where the Portuguese Government stripped the American fellowship of the BUDWEISER merchandise score which had non been finally registered. What this agency is that the instance volition live heard past times the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which is made upward of 17 judges, including the President, Vice-Presidents together with Section Presidents. The instance is listed every bit a pending instance on the court’s website, but no projected appointment is given. For those eager beavers who desire to rail the instance it’s Anheuser-Busch Inc. 5 Portugal (Application no. 73049/01).

suspects that it’s all a conspiracy to homecoming the English linguistic communication translation of the master due east Ct HR conclusion obsolete every bit shortly every bit it became available. Merpel notes that the superlative tidings storey for Budweiser on Google News has nix to produce alongside human rights. Instead it concerns the tape grab inward a Budweiser-sponsored fishing competiton.