The new version allows users to request an online certified copy of their patent applications, provide information about late declarations of priority and request entry of an international patent application to the UK national phase.

"Over the next few months, further enhancements will allow customers to request and receive an uncertified office copy electronically and also file a selection of later filed forms and documents via our website."

Further details about the system are available here.

Sources & further information

UK Intellectual Property Office news - Launch of new on-line patent services

UK Intellectual Property Office - Web filing - Important Information

Sources & further information

Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand news - News: IPONZ Website Survey 2007

Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand website - The IPONZ Website Survey 2007.

"By electing to proceed under the PPH initiative, patent applicants in both Canada and the U.S. will benefit from expedited examination to obtain corresponding patents faster and more efficiently. This initiative should also benefit both offices by facilitating the exploitation of the work performed by the other office, thereby improving patent quality and reducing the examination workload."

The US-Canadian Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program follows other such programs between the UK & US, the UK & Japan, the US & Japan, and Japan & Korea.

Sources & further information

Canadian Intellectual Property Office news - Canada-US Patent Prosecution Highway

Information about other Patent Prosecution Highways

IP Menu news - UK & USA - Patent Prosecution Highway opens between UK and USA

IP Menu news - UK, Japan & US - Patent Prosecution Highway updates

Sources & for further information

Canadian Intellectual Property Office news - Complete Collection of Canadian Industrial Design Registrations is Now Available!

Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Canadian Industrial Designs Database

have recently been updated.

The new version of ATMOSS has the following additions:

1. "Allow search by ‘notification date’ as shown below (this can be found under the Advanced Search Option):
2. TM number ‘from’ Range now functions correctly.
3. If a TM record is a Certification mark, there will be a hyperlink to the “Certification Mark Rules” on the Trade Mark Details page."

The changes to the E-Form TM application system include:

1. "For TM Headstart Applications, Email address is now mandatory for both the address for correspondence and applicant details screen
2. The system has been updated so that there is a limit of how many categories you can select using the picklist. The maximum number of categories you can select is 2,000 per application.
3. Customers now have the option of emailing themselves an official receipt for TM Applications, TM Headstart Requests and TM Headstart payments.
4. Customers can now enter up to 200 characters for an organisation name. If organisation is also the Address for Correspondence then they will be asked to provide an abbreviated name with a limit of 35 characters."

Source & for further information

IP Australia news - Updates to Trade Marks online forms and ATMOSS

Further details on the arrangement can be found here. The arrangement is part of the Avanza Plan, which is to further the promotion of industrial property.

Sources & further information

Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office (SPTO) news - Cooperation between the SPTO and the SETSI in the Avanza Plan

Spanish State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Information Society website - Informes Tecnológicos de Patentes TIC [in Spanish]

Spanish State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Information Society website - Plan Avanza [in Spanish]