ISRAEL IP

You can go and fetch it here:
http://www.trademarks.justice.gov.il/TradeMarksWebSiteUI/History/PublicationList.aspx

A very interesting piece of information - US applicants filed 45% of the Israeli patent applications on 2007. Israeli applicants filed only 26%.
It seems that while multi-national companies consider the highly advanced and sophisticated Israeli market a good destination for filing patents, Israeli companies do not do so. Israeli companies tend to be internationally oriented [...]

Due to the Passover holiday, the Israeli Patent and Trademark Office will be closed between April 8-16, 2009.
Any document which should be filed to the patent office, is due on the first working day after the end of the holiday. No documents should be filed on the holiday.

Here is a short post about the procedure in the Israeli Patent Law for getting a waiver from examination.
We call it the “lazy” clause. The Israeli parliament, when creating the patent act, chose to grant the Israeli Patent office an authority to grant an examination waiver if a corresponding patent was granted in a list [...]

We are very proud and happy to congratulate Yaara Shoshani Kaspi for her first rulings as the 3rd adjudicator on the Israeli PTO.
Yaara worked at AZF for a short period of time and we all have good memories of her.
We wish her success and are sure that her wisdom is a great gain [...]

Dr. Yosef Freedland, our head of medical device department, published some very interesting posts about selection patents.
You are welcome to read them on IP Doctor, our blog on medical device patents and patent drafting:
1. A Patent of Selection for a Jacketed Cardiac Stent
2. Jacketed Cardiac Stent - Suggested Invention
3. Patent of Selection - What’s That?

Following the war between Israel and Hamas, and right after it was over, Gaza Patent Office went back to work.
Patent offices worldwide usually work in almost every jurisdiction because they are an income source to these jurisdictions.