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Patent Filing
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IP Brief
2025 Patent Filing Costs Rise: USPTO Fee Update and Response Strategies
By Andrea Arndt
Introduction In January 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented a broad set of fee increases and structural adjustments intended to address rising operational costs and encourage…
Patentology Blog
Patent Filing Trends 2024– Market Share Shifts Continue as Firms Face Ongoing Challenges
The landscape of patent filing activity across Australia and New Zealand underwent continued transformation in 2024, marked by declining total filings and ongoing shifts in market share distribution and firm…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
L’EPO ha pubblicato il Patent Index 2023: l’Italia cresce ancora nella brevettazione ed è tra i primi Paesi nel deposito di brevetti europei con effetto unitario
L’Ufficio Europeo dei Brevetti (European Patent Office - EPO) ha pubblicato il Patent Index 2023, che fornisce una panoramica delle attività di deposito nell’Unione Europea nell’anno appena trascorso. Il primo…
Patentology Blog
LG Again Tops Australian Patent Filings in 2023, as Most of the ‘Usual Suspects’ Return
Over the past five years (i.e. since 2019) Korea’s LG Electronics Inc and China’s Huawei Technologies Ltd have consistently placed in the top five applicants for Australian patents. Indeed, for…
Patentology Blog
Patent Filings in Australia Fell Again in 2023, but Applications from China are Bucking the Trend
In 2023 the total number of standard patent applications filed in Australia remained above 30,000 for the third year running, despite a 2.4% drop in filings. This follows a decline…
Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill Blog
Foreign Filing Licenses – An Overlooked Pitfall of Last Minute Patent Filings
Patent applications are often filed at the last minute. Priority considerations force the application to be filed expeditiously to avoid statutory bars or catastrophic public disclosure issues. But filing too…
Patentology Blog
IPH Sues Again, as Competition Hots Up for Australian and New Zealand Patent Filings in 2022
As I recently reported, Australian (standard) patent filings in 2022 remained close to the historic highs of the previous year. This implies, of course, that patent attorneys filing applications on…
Patentology Blog
Korea’s LG Tops Australian Patent Filing Table, While IBM Surprises in Second Place
In recent years, the title of leading filer of Australian patent applications has been hotly (though probably inadvertently) contested between Huawei Technologies Ltd (China), Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Ltd (China),…
Patentology Blog
Australian Patent Filings Declined Slightly in 2022, but Held at Historic Highs by Strong International Interest
In 2022, for the second year running, the number of standard patent applications filed in Australia exceeded 30,000. While there was a slight decline of 0.5% compared with 2021, filings…
Patentology Blog
Have PCT Filings from Australia Been Affected by the Pandemic?
In 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic during which Australia’s two most populous cities spent long weeks under conditions of strict lockdown, the number of Australian standard patent…