On October 1 2006, some substantive changes came into effect relating to the procedure for applying for UK registered designs. The result should be that it will become easier to obtain a UK registered ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject matter expert, ...

The Design Office has taken an important step towards minimizing abuse of the design registration system with the introduction of a basic novelty examination. The absence of any substantive ...

WIPO member states have moved to simplify the international design registration system under the Hague Agreement, which comprises three different and independent acts. At an extraordinary meeting of ...

Singapore is due to accede to the Geneva Act (1999) of the Hague Agreement during the first half of 2005, in line with the Registered Designs (Amendment) Act 2004 which came into force on January 1 ...

Registration through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can require interstate carriers to juggle multiple disparate paper forms in a complicated and mind-bending process. To make things ...