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August 24, 2010
Kosovo Law on Customs Measures to be Implemented
On July 30, 2010, Administrative Instruction No.07/2010 entered into force. The Administrative Instruction addresses implementation of Kosovo’s Law on Customs Measures for Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, which entered into force on January 8, 2010. We wrote about the new law back in January. More details can be found in our article here.
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Bosnia Adopts Two Copyright Draft Laws
On July 13, 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted two new draft laws in the field of intellectual property, the Draft Law on Copyrights and Related Rights and the Draft Law on the Collective Management of Copyrights and Related Rights. The laws are now being revised by a lexical commission and are to be published in the Official Gazette in the near future. They are expected to enter into force by the end of the year.
Read more »August 24, 2010
Serbia to join EPO on October 1
On July 15, 2010, Serbia deposited its instrument of accession to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and will become the European Patent Organization’s (EPO) 38th member state on October 1, 2010.
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June 16, 2010
Tightening up in the Balkans
By Anamarija Stancic Petrovic, director of PETOSEVIC Croatia, and Mihajlo Zatezalo, director of PETOSEVIC Serbia. Published in World Intellectual Property Review Annual 2010, 2010. Legislation in the Western Balkan countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Kosovo) is already... Read more »LATEST PROJECTS
Nathan Project
In 2007 and 2008, PETOŠEVIĆ served as a local subcontractor to Nathan Associates, a consulting organization from Arlington, VA, to help implement a project of operational and organizational technical assistance to the Serbian Intellectual Property Office. The project was financed by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
The main goal of the project was to help the Serbian IPO to restructure and develop new operational protocols for processing patents and trademarks in order to become an efficient and financially self-sustaining agency.
