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We have now included a new caterory on our blog: “IP and Patent News” will update you with interesting and valuable information from national and international patent offices as well as other relevant sources within the patent industry. MultiLing leads the way in creating best practices for multinational Intellectual Property (IP) filings. We significantly increase quality and productivity while decreasing the risk associated with handing your patents over to disparate translation providers working individually across the globe. This results from MultiLing’s uniquely efficient centralized model.
You will find the most recent news on the front of our blog (lower section).… [Continue reading]
Recent Posts
- EPO and IEC Agree to Cooperate on Standards and Patents
- MultiLing Celebrates 25 Years with a Look Back and a Look Ahead
- Unified Patent: Objections Dismissed
- Happy Anniversary MultiLing! FORBES Features Company’s Quest for 100 Year Legacy
- Yokohama Rubber Posts Record Sales and Earnings in 2012
- Case Study: Yokohama Rubber Improves Quality of its IP Translations
- German Industry Magazine Reports About Linport Project
- Joint EPO-USPTO Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) System Successfully Entered Force
- USPTO: “First Inventor To File” Process Now in Action
- 2012: A Record Year for the EPO
Features
Case Study: Yokohama Rubber Improves Quality of its IP Translations Here is the next part of our series of case studies on how MultiLing helps multinational enterprises accomplish their global initiatives with the accurate, highly specialized, and secure translations of their intellectual property and/or technical materials.
Yokohama Rubber Improves Quality of its IP Translations, Lowers Risk and Costs with MultiLing
Best practices that have been conventional wisdom for decades can suddenly become antiquated and fall prey to new technology and better models. To stay productive and profitable, Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., a tire company based in Tokyo, Japan, consistently strives to stay aware of changes that can dramatically lower costs and increase e ciency.… [Continue reading]
MultiLing’s sales team is massively expanding its activities on tradeshows, conferences and industry fairs all over the world. If you would like to get in personal contact with us, please check this event list for the nearest location. If you click on the desired entry, you will be directed to the corresponding website.
Please contact us at request@multiling.com to make an appointment with a MultiLing representative. We hope to see you soon.
• Biotech and Pharma Patent Litigation Conference, Amsterdam, Jan 29-30
• Germany, Global IP Exchange (IQPC), Munich, Germany, Mar 3-5
• CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, Mar 5-9
• Gala Conference, Miami, FL, Mar 17-20
• China IP Counsel Conference, Shenzhen, China, Mar 19-20
• BIO IP Counsels Conference, San Diego, CA, Mar 25-27
• Localization World, Singapore, Apr 10-12
• International Patent Forum, London, UK, Apr 16-17
• IL BIO International, Chicago, Apr 22-25
• Bio tech 2013, Tokyo, Japan, May 8 -10
• IQPC Exchange, Dublin, Ireland, Jun 4-6
• Localization World, London, UK, Jun 12-14
• IP Business Congress, Boston, MA, Jun 9-11
• IPO, Boston, MA, Sept 15-17
• Tekom, Wiesbaden, Germany, Oct 9-11
• Localization World, Silicon Valley, CA, Oct 9-11
• EPO Patent Information Conference, Bologna, Italy, Oct 22-24
• IP Service World, Munich, Germany, Nov 25-26
• IP Summit, Brussells, Belgium, 6-7 Dec… [Continue reading]
Case Study Procter & Gamble: How It Doubled Patent Filings While Reducing Costs Introducing the second part of our series of case studies on how MultiLing helps multinational enterprises accomplish their global initiatives with the accurate, highly specialized, and secure translations of their intellectual property and/or technical materials.
Procter & Gamble – How It Doubled Patent Filings While Reducing Costs
With research facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, Procter & Gamble (P&G) spends billions of dollars annually inventing new procedures, chemical compounds, and products such as soaps, detergents, cleaners, and cosmetics. P&G files hundreds of patents annually in more than 31 countries and holds approximately 35,000 patents in its portfolio, making it one of the largest and
most valuable patent portfolios in the world.… [Continue reading]
GENERAL NEWS
MultiLing Celebrates 25 Years with a Look Back and a Look Ahead In celebration of MultiLing’ s 25th anniversary two weeks ago, employees and their families and community guests gathered for lunch and a look back to the company’s beginning. Michael Sneddon, CEO and founder, enjoyed a reunion with and introduced to the audience Wilf Lieber, who made the initial investment in MultiLing, and Daniel Oswald, MultiLing co-founder. In a presentation, COO Lyle Ball and Jeremy Coombs, senior vice president of operations gave Michael a vintage wood edition of RISK. RISK is a favorite game of Michael’s and over the years he’s been known to play the game with his executive team to teach business strategies and principles that MultiLing should incorporate.… [Continue reading]
Happy Anniversary MultiLing! FORBES Features Company’s Quest for 100 Year Legacy This week, MultiLing officially celebrates its 25th anniversary. Forbes.com contributor David K. Williams spoke with our chief operating officer Lyle Ball, who provided valuable insight on the 10 key steps that every company can use to put itself on the path of creating a level of success and a legacy that could last for even a 100 years.
“As an entrepreneur, I strive to create ideas that have life in and of themselves, but that can be merged with other good ideas (i.e. the ideas of our tremendous clients such as Procter & Gamble, which is a 100-year old company in its own right.) As these ideas merge, both parties become stronger companies,” Ball said.… [Continue reading]
IP AND PATENT NEWS
EPO and IEC Agree to Cooperate on Standards and Patents The European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have agreed to work closely together by facilitating the EPO use of IEC’s standardisation documents in all phases of its patenting process. The agreement sets another milestone for co-operation between the EPO and Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) to ensure greater legal certainty for patents granted by the EPO.
The agreement is based on the fact that IEC does not accept or allow the use of non-disclosure agreements in the standardisation work in which it is involved, alone or with other organisations, including informal discussions, input contributions and working documents. With this accord, EPO patent examiners will be able to full-text search IEC documents using the same process and tools as they use to search EPO’s own patent collections.… [Continue reading]
Unified Patent: Objections Dismissed The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rejected complaints from Spain and Italy about the legality and fairness of plans for an EU unitary patent framework.
24 EU countries, including the UK, have signed an agreement for the creation of a new unitary patent court system that should deal with cases relating to the validity and infringement of the unitary patent that will be effective from 1 January 2014. Only Spain and Italy challenged these plans by claiming that the legislative process used to establish the unitary patent framework does not allow for the creation of such a system and stating that this would be an infringement of EU law.… [Continue reading]
