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USPTO Announces New 3-Month Time Period for Applicants to Respond to the Majority of Trademark Office Actions

Effective December 3, 2022, U.S. trademark applicants will have now have a 3-month period vs. the current 6-month period to respond to the majority of pre-registration U.S. Office Actions. Post-registration deadlines will be similarly reduced to 3 months starting October 7, 2023.

News | 21.11.2022

Managing IP Rising Star 2022 | Liisa Sarnes Salokoski

Our expert Liisa Sarnes Salokoski has been recognized as a Rising Star in Managing IP’s 2022 study.

News | 12.10.2022

XXXV Nordic NIR Meeting 2022

This year’s Nordic NIR meeting gathered 160 IP professionals from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in Oslo on 28 to 30 August 2022. Climate change had been selected as the overall theme of the conference.

News | 13.9.2022

Novelty | How novelty of an invention is determined?

The basic requirement for patenting is that the invention at hand is novel. Novelty is determined by comparing the features of the invention to prior solutions from which the invention must differ.

News | 12.9.2022

IAM Patent 1000 2022 | The World’s Leading Patent Professionals

The 2022 edition of the IAM Patent 1000 (guide) has been published. We are pleased to share that Laine IP received a Silver ranking and excellent reviews in the Prosecution category. In addition, our European patent attorneys Jarkko Tiilikainen, Hanna Laurén, and Christoffer Sundman and our U.S. attorney, Mark Scott, were individually named as Recommended … Read more »

News | 8.7.2022

Financial Times: Laine IP Oy among Europe’s leading Patent Law Firms

Laine IP Oy has been listed among the best patent law firms by Financial Times in the Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022 ranking. Financial Times is one of the most distighuished and widely circulated busniess newspapers in the world.

News | 21.6.2022

Only a non-disclosed invention can be patented

A patentable invention needs to be novel, which is why it cannot be made available to the public before filing a patent application. A wide range of actions are considered publication, so the safest measure is to keep the invention completely in secrecy until a patent application has been filed.

News | 17.3.2022

An assignment is not a mere formality

The applicant must have the right to the invention in case the applicant is another entity than the inventor. Otherwise the application is not validly filed.

News | 10.3.2022

We stand with Ukraine!

Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people in their suffering and grief, and we support the work of Save the Children in Ukraine.

News | 4.3.2022

Update on UPC

The Provisional Application Period entered into force on 19th January 2022 and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) was born as an international organisation.

News | 25.1.2022