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India Moves Design Examination Reports to Email from October

India will ordinarily stop posting first examination reports for design applications from 2 October 2026. A notice published by IP India on 7 September specifies delivery to the email address recorded under the Indian address for service in Form 1. Paper dispatch remains possible where the Controller records written reasons based on the interests of justice or administrative exigencies. The change has not yet taken effect as of 16 September.For overseas applicants, a functioning mailbox at the Indian agent is only one part of a reliable reporting chain. JCIPO recommends checking the...
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Korea Proposes Simpler Typeface Design Filings and Stronger Pre-Filing Checks for 3D Drawings

Korea's Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP) opened a legislative notice on 21 September for a proposed partial amendment to the Enforcement Rule of the Design Protection Act, with comments invited until 2 November. The proposal would substantially reduce the material required for typeface design applications: for Hangul typefaces, designated characters would fall from 500 to 209 and drawings from five to two; for Chinese-character typefaces, designated characters would fall from 900 to 310 and drawings from nine to two. MOIP says the change is intended to retain the structural...
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South Africa's CIPC Shuts All Systems 25 to 28 September; File IP Papers Early

South Africa's Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) has issued Notice 49 of 2026 announcing scheduled maintenance of all CIPC systems and services from 17:00 on Friday 25 September until 07:00 on Monday 28 September. The CIPC states that during this period no applications and services will be available, and apologises for the inconvenience. Because the CIPC administers company registrations as well as trade marks, patents and designs, the window covers electronic filing, responses, renewals and searches for trade marks, patents and designs, together with company...
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IPONZ Notifies Two Industrial Exhibitions: A Reminder About Pre-Filing Disclosure Risk for Inventions and Designs

The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) published Journal No. 1767 on 25 September, adding two newly recognised industrial exhibitions: Buildathon, to be held at Victoria University of Wellington's Pipitea Campus from 25 to 27 September 2026 and expressly including oral presentations, and AgFest West Coast, to be held in Greymouth from 13 to 17 October 2026, likewise including oral presentations. Both events were declared industrial exhibitions for the purposes of section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by the Commissioner of...