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Weekly update

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(1) Top e-Filers・ Award 2008

The Intellectual Property Department・s e-filing services have been operating for four years, bringing a real time e-culture to intellectual property registration services.

The Top e-Filers・ Awards (awards) have been presented to our e-filers since 2005. Starting from 2007, the criteria for the awards has been changed from a cumulative basis to an annual basis, i.e. the total number of e-transactions filed with us in a calendar year determines the top 15 awards of that year. An additional award was also introduced in that five awards are presented to e-filers who have the highest volume of e-applications using Trade Mark Form T2, Patents Form P4, Patents Form P6 and Designs Form D1 in a calendar year.

IPD shall continue to adopt the current criteria in 2008. League tables showing the top 15 e-filers who file the highest number of all e-transactions and the top five e-filers who have the highest volume of e-filing of Trade Mark Form T2, Patents Form P4, Patents Form P6 and Designs Form D1 will be posted with monthly update.

(Source : IPD・s letter dated 5 March 2008 to the Law Society of Hong Kong, Asian Patent Attorneys Association Hong Kong Group and the Hong Kong Institute of Trade Mark Practitioners).

The following league tables are based on the volume of e-filing recorded in IPD・s designated information system since 1 January 2008 to 31 May 2008.

(A) Top e-filers of all e-transactions

Ranking Firms
1 UNDISCLOSED
2 DEACONS
3 WILKINSON & GRIST
4 JSM
5 BAKER & MCKENZIE
6 SIT, FUNG, KWONG AND SHUM SOLICITORS
7 MARKS & CLERK
8 CLT PATENT & TRADEMARK (H.K.) LIMITED
9 CHINA.HK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SERVICES CO., LTD.
10 NTD PATENT & TRADE MARK AGENCY LIMITED
11 VIVIEN CHAN & CO.
12 ELLA CHEONG (HK) LIMITED
13 ROBIN BRIDGE & JOHN LIU
14 HASTINGS & CO.
15 LIU, SHEN & ASSOCIATES

(B) Top e-filers of T2, P4, P6 and D1

Ranking Firms
1 DEACONS
2 WILKINSON & GRIST
3 CHINA.HK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SERVICES CO., LTD.
4 UNDISCLOSED
5 JSM

(2) Update of e-filing:-

No. of e-filers (as at 30 June 2008) : 109 e-filers (see list attached)
Total no. of e-transactions since 31 December 2003 (as at 30 June2008) : 179,585
No. of applications filed electronically(as at 31 May 2008): -

  • Applications for registration of trade marks (T2) : 58.8%
  • Applications for standard applications (P4) : 45.6%
  • Application for registration of designs (D1): 47.8%
CONTACT US

For enquiry, please call our general enquiry hotline 2961 6901 or e-filing hotline 2961 6820.

IPD
30 June 2008

 
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