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Israel Patent Office Hosts European Biology/Chemistry Examiners
The Israel Patent Office hosted a seminar featuring examiners from the European Patent Office. The focus was on examining chemistry and genetic applications, and presentations covered examining Markush...
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Israel Patent Office Issues Draconian Duty of Disclosure Directive
In yet another Israel Patent Office Circular (M. N. 77) designed to increase productivity, to minimize duplication of resources and to shorten the examination process, the Israel Commissioner of...
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Israel Commissioner Limits Possibility of Filing Divisional Applications to...
Section 24a of the Israel Patent Law 1967 allows for filing a divisional application at any time up to a patent application issuing. In the interests of clarifying the scope of protection, in...
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Reduction in PCT Search Fees at the EPO
As of 1 April 2010, the search fees payable to the EPO as an International Search Authority of the PCT will be $US 2485 instead of $US 2515, as previously. This is not an April fools day joke. I...
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Israel Patent Authority to Hold Patentscope Seminar on Fast of Av
The Patentscope Seminar is to be held on 20th and 21st of July 2010. 20th July 2010 is Tisha B’Av, the fast instituted two thousand years ago to remember and mourn the destruction of the Temple of...
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Should Israel Join the Patent Examination Superhighway?
We were intrigued to receive a letter from the Israel Patent Office asking for feedback to a proposal that it joins the patent superhighway. Background – with growing piles of unexamined patents, a...
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Fast Israel Patent Office Search Reports Available for Priority Applications
After an initial classification on filing, to assign to a particular technology group, the Israel Patent Office examines applications in each group in turn. Unlike some other jurisdictions, there is...
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Dismissal of Malpractice Charges Against Israel Patent Attorney and Lawyer...
The Court of Appeal has upheld the revised ruling of the lower court that an Israel Patent Attorney and Advocate was not guilty of malpractice in failing to uncover Prior Art that raised Freedom to...
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Israel Patent Law Ammended
On 8th December 2011, the Israel Knesset passed an amendment to the Israel Patent Law 1967. There appear to be two changes, the first cosmetic and the second substantive. Firstly, all references to...
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Dr Ben Spungin joins IP Factor
We are delighted to welcome Dr Ben Spungin to IP Factor. Ben is a very experienced patent attorney who until recently, was a partner at Reinhold Cohen. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Weizmann...
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PCT Direct
The Israel Patent Office has announces an experimental service called “PCT Direct”. PCT Direct is intended to make the process more efficient and to increase the value of the International Search...
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Cost of Prosecuting A Patent Application
I’ve recently been examining the costs of prosecuting patent applications through to allowance in different jurisdictions on behalf of one of my corporate clients. What is clear is that for the same...
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Patent Searching
I have just participated in a 10 hour course on patent searching that was sponsored by Kim Lindy’s Intellectual Property Resources (IPR), and was given by Arad Ophir Ltd, Israel’s leading data resource...
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