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With effect from 04 January 2017, the Brunei IP Office (BruIPO) has instituted new operating hours. Under this new arrangement, BruIPO is closed every Friday and Sunday, which have been declared as non-working days. Any deadlines falling on those days…
The Brunei Darussalam Intellectual Property Office (BruIPO) has announced that from 26 January 2017 onwards, some major changes to the Act and Rules will take effect. This is, of course, in addition to the most substantive change i.e. the country’s…
The Government of Brunei Darussalam made an official notification to WIPO that, effective 19 March 2017, all international trade mark applications or subsequent designations of Brunei Darussalam must include a Declaration of Intention to Use the Mark. Applicants (or their…
On 06 October 2016, Brunei Darussalam deposited with the Director General of WIPO its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks. The Madrid Protocol will thus enter into force with respect to Brunei on…
We are informed that BruIPO now requires the owners of existing re-registration patents to notify the Registrar of their intention to switch to the new regime of renewal based on the date of grant of the basic foreign patent. We…
BruIPO has issued a practice note concerning the term of protection and dates for renewal of re-registration patents based on EP(GB), GB, MY and SG patents. By decision of 21 May 2014 in Civil Appeal No. 10 of 2013, the…
With effect from June 2013, the Brunei Intellectual Property Office (BruIPO), formerly known as the Patent Registry Office, has assumed responsibility for administration of trade mark registrations from the Attorney General’s Chambers. BruIPO will also be re-locating to a new…
Effective 01 October 2012, the Registry of Industrial Designs in Brunei has been transferred from the Attorney General’s Chambers to the Patent Registry Office (PRO). This move is part of an ongoing restructuring of the country’s IP administration system that…
Brunei Darussalam’s Patents Order, 2011 came into force on 01 January 2012. As a result, re-registration patents in Brunei are now subject to payment of local annuities to keep the patent in force. The earliest fee is due on the…
On 24 April 2012, Brunei Darussalam deposited its instrument of accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. The Budapest Treaty will will enter into force for Brunei…
Brunei Darussalam became the 145th PCT Contracting State on 24 April 2012. The PCT will enter into force for Brunei Darussalam on 24 July 2012. Any PCT application with international filing date on or after 24 July 2012 may designate…
Brunei Darussalam (country code – BN) deposited its instrument of accession to the Paris Convention on 17 November 2011. The country will become bound by the Stockholm Act (1967) of the Paris Convention on 17 February 2012.