The Israel Patent and Trademark Office finally managed to launch their new trademark portal.
With much fanfare, back in May, the Trademark Department of the Israel Patent Authority held a series of seminars open to trademark practitioners, to showcase a new interface designed to improve on-line filing and searching of Israel trademarks promising paperless trademark filing and prosecution, and the searching of graphic elements using Boolean search techniques. Despite announcing when this was to go up, there were various practical problems, and the new interface finally went up on 30 December 2008. It is great. We expect it will enable Israel’s implementation of the Madrid Protocol, which has also been put on hold indefinitely, despite the Trademark Law being amended last year to allow for this.
Amongst other reforms, it is now possible to file and prosecute trademark applications over the Internet, which is both more convenient and more ecologically friendly than the traditional methods.
Do you have a direct link to this? I’m afraid I can’t find anything on the Israel Patent Office website and the search engines don’t seem to have picked it up yet.
Your entry seems very terse. it should mention the searching of 3-D images as well. Actually, an update regarding temporary problems in re the on line filing interface should also be metioned.