http://www.prv.se/ http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/IP-Translator/ On 19/06/2012 the Court delivered its ruling in Case C-307/10 “IP Translator”, giving the following answers to the referred questions: 1 – Directive 2008/95 must be interpreted as meaning that it requires the goods and services for which the protection of the trade mark is sought to be identified by the applicant with sufficient clarity and precision to enable the competent authorities and... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/IP-Translator/ Fri, 03 May 2013 13:32:52 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Two-day-conference-at-EPO/ Classifying with the Cooperative Patent Classification The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a new global classification system for patent documents. The product of joint efforts by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office, the CPC incorporates the best classification practices of both offices. Including approximately 250 000 symbols, it enables patent... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Two-day-conference-at-EPO/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:38:29 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-feature-in-Swedish-Trademark-Renewal/ From April 11th it will be possible to pay for the online trademark renewal application through a deposit account. You can search for your trademark in the Swedish Trademark Renewal Service and find out when your trademark renewal is due. When you use the online renewal service the fees are paid electronically. http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-feature-in-Swedish-Trademark-Renewal/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:58:17 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Beware-of-false-invoices1/ Beware of false invoices relating to your national and international applications. Currently, many customers are calling us about false invoices from scam companies listed on the warning list from the Swedish Trade Federation. PRV deeply deplores that false invoices exist. We can only urge you to be alert and to contact us if you have any doubts. See also the Warning List from Swedish Trade... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Beware-of-false-invoices1/ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:36:11 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/EuroClass-becomes-TMClass/ The common tool EuroClass is rebranding into TMClass. All of the member states are now participating in the project and there is also an interest from offices outside the European Union. Except from the Union countries you can already now find goods and services from USA, Japan, Switzerland and Croatia. Next to follow will be Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Mexico. In parallel to this the convergenc... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/EuroClass-becomes-TMClass/ Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:49:05 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/EPO-have-made-ECLA-classification-schemes-available/ When EPO switched from their old patent classification system ECLA to CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) they stopped access to the ECLA classification schemes. On demand they have now made the last version available for the public in the form of pdf documents. The 638 classification schemes can be downloaded in a zip file from EPO's website . http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/EPO-have-made-ECLA-classification-schemes-available/ Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:41:17 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PRV-is-getting-involved-in-the-EU-Project-Innovaccess/ As of January will PRV get involved in the EU project Innovaccess.eu. The purpose of the project is to raise awareness about IPR in Europe. The project consist of several workinggroups. One emphasizes on raising awareness and educate small and medium sized companies, another group focus on raising awareness among intermediaries within the system of innovation within each country. PRV is getting... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PRV-is-getting-involved-in-the-EU-Project-Innovaccess/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:24:51 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/All-applicants-get-a-letters-patent/ The Patent and Registration Office (PRV) has previously issued only one copy of the letters patent for a granted patent. Due to demand from our customers we will from now on send each applicant a copy of their own. This is done free of charge. http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/All-applicants-get-a-letters-patent/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:47:06 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Disruptions-of-Swedish-Patent-Database-service-during-Sunday-13-January/ Because of maintenance work the Swedish Patent Database might suffer from disruptions on Sunday 13 January, particularly when performing classification searches. http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Disruptions-of-Swedish-Patent-Database-service-during-Sunday-13-January/ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:39:19 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/How-to-interpret-the-IP-Translator-ruling/ Since the IP-Translator ruling, OHIM and the National and Regional Offices of its Member States have been debating how to correctly interpret the verdict. On 5 December, 2012, representatives from the Offices gathered at the OHIM premises in Alicante for further discussions on the matter. There is agreement that IP Translator means that the legal requirements for precision do not allow a class... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/How-to-interpret-the-IP-Translator-ruling/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:13:51 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/ECLA-replaced-by-CPC-in-the-Swedish-Patent-Database/ New patent classification system On December 21st the Swedish Patent Database switches from EPO’s patent classification system ECLA to the new CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification), which is developed by EPO and USPTO. CPC has emerged during the last two years and will officially replace ECLA at the new year. In Espacenet the switch was made already on December 20th, and as a consequence ther... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/ECLA-replaced-by-CPC-in-the-Swedish-Patent-Database/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:03:08 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Ireland-joins-TMview/ Trade marks from the Irish Patents Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices. This last expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 25. Besides Ireland these are: Austria, Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech Republic,... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Ireland-joins-TMview/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:14:42 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Delivery-times-during-Christmas-holidays/ During Christmas holidays, the delivery times for our consultancy services within patents, trademarks and industrial designs may be affected. We will, of course, do our best to keep to the stated delivery times. However, in those cases when that will not be possible, clients will be contacted the same day as PRV InterPat receives their requests. Our services with Express delivery are most likel... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Delivery-times-during-Christmas-holidays/ Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:27:52 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Poland-joins-TMview/ Trade marks from the Polish Patent Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices. The latest expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 24. Besides Poland these are: Austria, Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech Republic,... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Poland-joins-TMview/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:15:13 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Amended-individual-fees-for-International-Trademark-Registrations/ Amended individual fees for International Trademark Registrations designating Sweden under the Madrid Protocol. As of February 5th, 2013, the individual fees for Sweden will be the following: Designation fee (in the international application or in a subsequent designation) for one class of goods or services: (SEK 2 300) CHF 322 for each additional class (SEK 900) CHF 126 Renewal fee for one cla... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Amended-individual-fees-for-International-Trademark-Registrations/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:48:28 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Sweden-has-implemented-the-Seniority-project/ Sweden has become the 9th national office to implement the Seniority project. The project, a part of the cooperation with OHIM in the Cooperation Fund involves establishing links between the national office and OHIM's trademark databases wherever seniority is requested and also make the information accessible online. When searching in the Swedish trademark database the information is now... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Sweden-has-implemented-the-Seniority-project/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:29:35 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/No-Christmas-break-for-the-Swedish-Patent-Gazette/ Starting in 2013, the Swedish Patent Gazette will be issued from week 1. This issue will be called nr. 1. Previously, the first gazette of the year was published in the second week of the year and was called nr. 2 (issue numbering follows weekly numbers). With the Swedish Patent Gazette being issued weekly all year round; access is increased and searching for notifications is simplified. To... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/No-Christmas-break-for-the-Swedish-Patent-Gazette/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:04:28 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Electronic-distribution-of-cited-literature/ As from 13 November 2012, PRV distributes literature cited in our reports electronically via our online service “Cited documents”. This means that from now on, all documents cited in our reports will be electronically available to our clients. Up until now, only patent documents have been distributed via “Cited documents”, while cited literature has been provided in paper format.   Please note... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Electronic-distribution-of-cited-literature/ Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:21:16 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Austria-and-Germany-join-TMview/ Trade marks from the Austrian Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices. The latest expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 23. Besides Austria and Germa... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Austria-and-Germany-join-TMview/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:33 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-fees-from-1-December-2012/ Raised annual fees for patent applications and patent and trademarks from 1 December 2012. Patents New annual fees from 1 December 2012: The changes concern payments which are made from 1 December 2012. For payments which are made before 1 December 2012, the older regulations concerning the annual fees are valid. Annual fees for patent applications and patents (SEK) Regular fee (SEK) Increased... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-fees-from-1-December-2012/ Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:28:20 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application1/ Change of equivalent amounts for a PCT application as from 1 January 2013: International filing fee: 9330 SEK Fee per sheet in excess of 30: 110 SEK Reductions PCT-EASY: 700 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request being in character coded format): 1400 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request, description, claims and abstract being in character coded format): 2100 SEK Handling fee... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application1/ Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:31:27 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application2/ Change of equivalent amounts for a PCT application as from 1 November 2012: International filing fee: 9150 SEK Fee per sheet in excess of 30: 100 SEK Reductions PCT-EASY: 690 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request being in character coded format): 1380 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request, description, claims and abstract being in character coded format): 2060 SEK Handling fee... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application2/ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:51:49 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Malta-joins-TMview/ Trade marks from the National IP Office of Malta, Commerce Department have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices. The latest expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 21. Besides Malta these are: Bulgaria, Benelux,... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Malta-joins-TMview/ Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:31:49 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/The-new-patent-classification-system-CPC-has-been-published/ At the new year EPO’s classification system ECLA will be replaced by CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification), which is based on ECLA and other EPO search tools and developed by EPO and the USPTO together. CPC will contain around 250,000 groups and will thus be more than three times bigger than the International Patent Classification (IPC). The first classification schemes have now been made... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/The-new-patent-classification-system-CPC-has-been-published/ Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:45:09 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Beware-of-false-invoices/ Beware of false invoices relating to your national and international applications. PRV deeply deplores that false invoices exist. We can only urge you to be alert and to contact us if you have any doubts. See also WIPO information on false invoices. http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Beware-of-false-invoices/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:03:41 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-formalities-practice/ In trademark- and design matters The Swedish Patent and Registration office (PRV) will, as of 1 October 2012, apply a new practice concerning the examination of formalities in matters related to trademark- and industrial design cases. In most cases signatures in original hand-writing will no longer be required. Furthermore, authorization of signatures will only be examined in doubt of their... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/New-formalities-practice/ Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:06:08 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PCT-application-via-fax/ PCT applications submitted to PRV via fax on or after 1 September 2012 do not require a subsequent filing of the original application as long as the quality of the fax copy is good enough for publication. http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PCT-application-via-fax/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:03:57 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Amendments-to-the-PCT-regulations/ As of 1 January 2013, amendments to the PCT regulations are introduced due to the new patent legislation in the United States. The applicant does then no longer need to be the same as the inventor in PCT applications in which the USPTO is designated searching authority. Applicants should however be aware that the possibility to indicate an applicant other than the inventor exists in application... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Amendments-to-the-PCT-regulations/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:16:04 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application/ Change of equivalent amounts for a PCT application as from 1 November 2012: International filing fee: 9150 SEK Fee per sheet in excess of 30: 100 SEK Reductions PCT-EASY: 690 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request being in character coded format): 1380 SEK Reductions electronic filing (the request, description, claims and abstract being in character coded format): 2060 SEK Handling fee... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Change-of-equivalent-amounts-for-a-PCT-application/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:16:43 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Activities-in-our-governmental-commission/ PRV is currently working on a governmental commission to strengthen Swedish small and medium sized enterprises' (SMEs') ability to manage their intellectual property as a strategic business tool. The governmental commission was assigned to PRV in cooperation with VINNOVA (Sweden's innovation agency), the project time is 2012 - 2013. Several activities have been started to achieve the goal of th... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Activities-in-our-governmental-commission/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:50:21 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PRVs-practice-on-class-headings-remains-unchanged-after-the-IP-translator-ruling/ On June 26-28, PRV attended a meeting, hosted by OHIM, within the Convergence Programme. The theme of the meeting was a harmonized practice for the classification of goods and services. Some twenty of the EU Member States are taking part in an ongoing project for drafting a new structure (taxonomy) of goods and services within the existing framework of the Nice Agreement. The aim is to facilita... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/PRVs-practice-on-class-headings-remains-unchanged-after-the-IP-translator-ruling/ Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:29:41 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Hungary-joins-TMview/ Trade marks from the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices. The latest expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 20. Besides Hungary these are: Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Hungary-joins-TMview/ Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:16:28 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/The-IP-Translator-Ruling/ Following the Ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the IP Translator case, C-307/10; the PRV and other National Trade Mark Offices will attend a working group meeting at the OHIM. One objective of the meeting, which takes place on 26-28 June, will be to find a common interpretation of the Ruling and to share views on issues such as the scope of protection for existing trade... http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/The-IP-Translator-Ruling/ Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:26:44 GMT http://www.prv.se/en/About-us/News/Delivery-times-during-summer1/ During summer, the delivery times for our consultancy services within patents, trademarks and industrial designs may be affected. We will, of course, do our best to keep to the stated delivery times. However, in those cases when that will not be possible, clients will be contacted the same day as PRV InterPat receives their requests. 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