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22 February 2019
Notice of Interruption in the Operations of the Patents Registry, Designs Registry and Trade Marks Registry

22 February 2019
The Chapter on "Assignments of registered trade marks and applications" and "《Consent, honest concurrent use and other special circumstances" of the Trade Marks Registry Work Manual is updated (PDF format)

20 February 2019
Notice of Interruption in the Operations of the Patents Registry, Designs Registry and Trade Marks Registry

20 February 2019
17-18 Jun 2019
The seventh IP Manager Training Programme
Details and Registration

19 February 2019
The Chapters on “Amendment of applications”, “Applications for extension of time (other than under rules 13(3) and 13(6))”, “Certification and collective marks”, “Colour marks”, “Defensive trademarks”, “Deficiencies checking”, “Division of applications”, “Movement marks and holograms”, “Search”, “Shape marks” and “Sound marks” are updated (PDF format)

11 February 2019
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area High Value Patent Portfolio Contest 2019 is now open for application
Official website
Online application
Download application form
(Simplified Chinese version only)
Application deadline: 15 March 2019

11 February 2019
Survey on Public Awareness of Intellectual Property Right Protection 2018
Press Release
Detailed Report (PDF format)
Summary of Findings (PDF format)

4 February 2019
Weekly update

1 February 2019
New set of Registries forms take effect from 14 February 2019 :
Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap.559) Notice of specification of forms
Patents Ordinance (Cap. 514) Notice of specification of forms
Designs Ordinance (Cap. 522) Notice of specification of forms

1 February 2019
Hong Kong Licensing Awards 2018 and Asian Licensing Awards 2018

29 January 2019
Notice of Variation of the Mode of Transaction of Business and the Business Hours and Business Days of the Trade Marks Registry, Patents Registry and Designs Registry
(from 1 February to 14 February 2019)

28 January 2019
IPD holds "I Pledge" Campaign Observation Wheel Fun Day
Press release

25 January 2019
Notice on the Launch of the New Integrated IT System of the Intellectual Property Department (updated version)
The arrangements of "Suspension of the E-filing Service", "Drop-Box Service outside Business Hours" and "New set of Trade Marks Forms, Patents Forms and Design Forms" have been updated

22 January 2019
Notice on the collection of the National Patent Agent Qualification Certificate 2018 (Guangzhou examination centre) (Simplified Chinese version only)

7 January 2019
Inter-School Intellectual Property Contest
The Contest has concluded successfully, please click here for the results. (Chinese version only)

4 January 2019
The Chapters on “Agents” and “Address for service and change of name, address or address for service” of the Trade Marks Registry Work Manual are updated (PDF format)

28 December 2018
Major findings of Survey on Manpower in Intellectual Property Trading and Management
Press release
Summary of Survey Results

27 December 2018
With effect from 1 January 2019, the 2019 version of the Eleventh edition of the Nice Classification, which is designated as NCL(11-2019), shall be adopted for the purpose of classifying goods and services under the Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap. 559). For information on the Nice Classification published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, please visit the following website:-
http://www.wipo.int/classifications/nice/en/

20 December 2018
Notice on Interruption in the Operations of the Patents Registry, Designs Registry and Trade Marks Registry

13 December 2018
Copyright Licensing Bodies Forms have been updated. Please download the latest version of forms from here.

27 November 2018
Notice on the release of results of the National Qualification Examination for Patent Agents 2018 (Simplified Chinese version only)

5 September 2018
Downtime schedule for online services – September 2018 (PDF format)

30 April 2018
Notice on the National Qualification Examination for Patent Agents 2018 (Simplified Chinese version only)

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