Macedonia News Archives
December 04, 2007
Slovenia and Macedonia IPOs Sign Cooperation Agreement
On November 16th, the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office and the State Office of Industrial Property of the Republic of Macedonia Signed a Cooperation Agreement.
The two IPOs agree to promote protection of intellectual property through activities such as exchange of information, exchange and training of staff and joint activities aiming at raising awareness of intellectual property. The Agreement replaces a similar 1996 Agreement between the two IPOs.
For more information, please contact our Macedonia representative.
December 29, 2004
Macedonia customs authorities prepared a draft law on customs measures for the protection of intellectual property rights
The law is expected to enter into force in early 2005.
The draft law in question is in accordance with Regulation No. 1383/2003 of the European Council, dated July 22, 2003. It provides measures that will allow customs authorities to undertake action in order to secure intellectual property rights.
Among other things, the law spells out the actions that the customs authorities would be able to undertake ex officio. In addition, it regulates the requests filed with the customs authorities and the procedures to be followed with the infringing goods. It also addresses the rights, obligations and the responsibilities of the customs authorities and of the rights holder.
In the interim and prior to enforcement of the customs law, the above-mentioned matters will be regulated by the Industrial Property Law of Macedonia.
For more information, please contact our Macedonia representative.
August 25, 2004
Amendments to the Macedonian Trademark Law
Recent amendments affect deadlines by which one can respond to refusal decisions issued by the PTO.
The amendments are part of the new and recently finalized Macedonian Trademark Act. They affect both national and international deadlines for responding to refusal decisions issued by the Macedonian PTO.
For national applications in Macedonia, the deadline to respond to a refusal decision is 30 days, with a possible 6-month extension of time.
By the same amendment, international applicants designating Macedonia now have a 3-month deadline to respond to a refusal decision. However, there is no possibility to extend this 3-month period.
For more information on the new Trademark Law in Macedonia, please contact our Macedonia representative.