Friday Foreign Filing Roundup

Here are the highlights from the week of September 26, 2011:

• Mike Ervin of M.A. Ervin and Associates, has filed around 100 foreign cases through inovia, which has allowed him to scale his business.  Read his story.
• The Forty-Ninth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO is taking place September 26 to October 5 in Geneva.  Click here for a summary of Director General Francis Gurry’s welcome address.
• inovia‘s Jeff Shieh takes a look at Patent Protection in the ASEAN Region. 
• Jeff shares tips for the small inventor in the wake of the America Invents Act on Law360.com. 
• News on the unitary European patent: the EU Presidency and the European Commission aim to work out an agreement on a new patent system by December.  

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