04/11/2015
New Search Function for Patents on Your Mobile
The European Patent Office (EPO) has added mobile beta versions of its main search services Espacenet and the European Patent Register. This means that anyone anywhere can now conduct a patent search in the EPO’s databases – the world’s largest free collection of technical information – on the move, using a smartphone.
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02/11/2015
Notification on Amended Method of Calculating the Duration of the Supplementary Protection Certificate
Pursuant to the judgement C-471/14 SIPO Croatia shall change the method of calculation the duration of the SPC in the way that the date of notification of the decision on authorisation given to the party shall be considered relevant rather than the date of granting the authorisation, which was the former practice of the Office. The method of calculating pursuant to the ruling C-471/14 shall apply to all the requests for granting SPCs filed with the Office until 6 October 2015 or later and still pending with the Office.
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07/07/2015
The exhibition European Inventors Hall of Fame has been opened
After Deutsches Museum in Munich and Città della Scienza in Naples, the travelling exhibition of the European Patent Office „European Inventors Hall of Fame“ has been solemnly opened on 2nd July 2015 at the Technical Museum in Zagreb.
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26/06/2015
The exhibition European Inventors Hall of Fame from 3rd July 2015 at the Technical Museum in Zagreb
On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Patent Act in Croatia, SIPO Croatia in cooperation with the European Patent Office and the Technical Museum in Zagreb hosts the exhibition European Inventors Hall of Fame which will be open to public from 3rd July till 16th October 2015 at the premises of the Technical Museum in Zagreb.
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29/05/2015
European Inventor Award – fifteen outstanding inventors competing for the Popular Prize
On 11 June the European Patent Office (EPO) will present the tenth European Inventor Award. The winner of the Popular Prize will be selected exclusively by the public in an online poll. The public is invited to vote online for their favourite finalist. Voting is open until 4 June on www.epo.org.
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10/07/2014
National Day of Nikola Tesla - Day of Science, Technology and Innovation, July 10
State Intellectual Property Office on the occasion of the National Day of Nikola Tesla, on its official web site gives site visitors the collection of Nikola Tesla's patent documents.
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10/02/2014
WIPO-Croatia Summer School on Intellectual Property in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 26 to June 06, 2014
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing two-week Summer School on Intellectual Property (Summer School), jointly with the State Intellectual Property Organization (SIPO), Croatia, and the University of Dubrovnik from May 26 to June 06, 2014.
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02/09/2013
Information on the Increase in the Frequency of Publication of the Croatian Intellectual Property Gazette
With the aim to accelerate the industrial property registration and granting procedures, the State Intellectual Property Office decided to publish the Croatian Intellectual Property Gazette once in two weeks, instead of once a month.
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03/07/2013
Public Professional Meeting „Croatia in the Community Trademark and Community Design Systems“
On the occasion of marking the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July, 2013 and the inclusion in the Community trademark and Community design systems, a public professional meeting “Croatia in the Community Trademark and Community Design Systems” was organized in cooperation of the State Intellectual Property Office and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market Trademarks and Designs – OHIM and held in Zagreb, on 2 July, 2013.
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01/07/2013
ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CHANGES IN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SYSTEM
By the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union on 1 July 2013, the Croatian intellectual property system will be completely integrated into the intellectual property system of the European Union. All the steps made on the path of this integration, which were not related to the time itself of the accession to the European Union, were completed during the pre-accession process, whereas the integration will be completely finished on the day of the accession.
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01/07/2013
The Office in the TMview System – Croatian Trademarks in the Common Database of Trademarks of the European Union and Other Countries
On 1 July 2013, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) is to join the TMview system, as a tool and a database for searching trademarks registered with the trademark offices of the European Union and other offices participating in the system.
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24/06/2013
Announcement Regarding the Act on Amending the Patent Act
The Act on Amending the Patent Act has been published in the Official Gazette No. 76/2013 of 21.06.2013.
The text of the Act can be found here.
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07/06/2013
Harmonization of Classification of Goods and Services
The process of technical harmonization that will, after the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, allow, among other things, the full inclusion of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) in the programs of cooperation between national trademark offices of the Member States launched by the Office for Harmonization on the Internal Market (OHIM) as the trademark office of the European Union is underway.
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22/05/2013
Signature of cooperation and bilateral agreements with OHIM
On 21st May, at the margins of the ABBC meeting, and as part of the preparatory work of the coming accession of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union, Ms Ljiljana Kuterovac the Director General of the State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia (SIPO) and the President of OHIM, Mr. Antonio Campinos had signed relevant agreements.
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26/03/2013
Mrs. Ljiljana Kuterovac, Director General of the SIPO appointed member of the Supervisory Board of the EPO Academy
Mrs. Ljiljana Kuterovac, Director General of the SIPO has been appointed to the position of member of the Supervisory Board of the Academy of the European Patent Organization (EPO), by the Administrative Council of EPO, at its 135th session.
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