(Corrected on February 3, 2022 to show that the effective date is November 30, 2021, not September 17, 2021.)
This is a busy time for good news about DAS. One piece of good news about DAS is that the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DPTO) became an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office in DAS for utility model applications on November 30, 2021.
DPTO was already a Depositing Office for national patent applications and RO/DK was already a Depositing Office for PCT applications. And DPTO was already an Accessing Office for national patent applications. The big news here is that DPTO recently became both an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office for utility model applications.
This offers a reminder for those readers who are perhaps not as familiar with utility models as with other forms of intellectual property protection. It reminds us that Denmark offers utility model protection. WIPO has a very helpful web page that discusses utility models and lists the seventy-six Offices where utility model protection is available.
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