Environment and online issues

01-02-2010

Michael Factor

The Israel patent database is now available online on the Israel Patent Office website (www.ilpatsearch.justice.gov.il/UI/) and via the WIPO’s Patentscope (www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/index).

Patent developments

The Israel patent database is now available online on the Israel Patent Office website (www.ilpatsearch.justice.gov.il/UI/) and via the WIPO’s Patentscope (www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/index). By January 2011, electronic filing and prosecution of Israel patents should be possible.

In Circular M. N. 76, the Israel Commissioner of Patents announced a new patent classification: the ‘environmentally friendly’ class, which is to include technologies that counter global warming, reduce pollution of water or air, and promote environmentally friendly agriculture.


green patents, IPO, publishing

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