Recent guidelines from the China National Intellectual Property Administration, effective Jan. 1, have again put the spotlight on the value of Chinese utility models and the interplay between utility ...

A utility model can be obtained in Spain for inventions relating to products, not methods, and for a term of 10 years. The requirements to be met by a utility model in Spain are slightly different to ...

Gump Wang of Uni-intel Patent and Trademark Law Firm explores the strategic value of utility models, which have strong enforcement potential and play a crucial role in China’s patent system Utility ...

Last time, we looked at the application of a utility model internally. In such a scenario, a utility model is used to create tiered services for the delivery of the IT resources of computing, ...

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On the road to a flexible data center, there are four major steps: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility (see “Four steps to utility”). Once a company has implemented ...