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INTA 2022 Annual Meeting Live+
We are pleased to announce that our Managing Principal Mr. John Wilson is registered for INTA’s Annual Meeting Live+ 2022 from April 30–May 4 | Washington, D.C. John is excited to reconnect in person with so many friends and to make new connections – after a lengthy hiatus. Please join John at INTA in Washington, […]
EU Session-2021
John Wilson will be a speaker at the Invest Sri Lanka 2021 Forum, the EU Session on the 8th June 2021 at 15:30. Please join us for what will be a very interesting discussion regarding investing in Sri Lanka from a variety of perspectives. See the attached program. Read more
NIPO – TEMPORARILY CLOSED
We were advised that the National Intellectual Property Office will be temporarily closed for Intellectual Property Agents and the General Public with immediate effect (from 30.04.2021 onwards) as one of their officers has been identified as a close contact of a Covid -19 positive patient. Further action in this regard will be determined immediately upon […]
World Bank Certificate For Doing Business
John Wilson and several lawyers employed at John Wilson Partners contributed to the Doing Business Research for the Doing Business Team of the World Bank Group. Questionnaires for which answers were contributed included questionnaires dealing with registering property, enforcing contracts, labour market regulation, getting credit, protecting minority investors and contracting with the Government. We intend […]
COVID-19 – Government updates
“Owing to the highest efficiency in the implementation of any emergency response plan by the military and the police, the government of Sri Lanka has succeeded in countering three major clusters of COVID-19 outbreaks (commonly called waves by the general public) since the WHO declared a global pandemic since 11 March 2020”. The press release […]
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE
The National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka (NIPO) has announced that online payments will not be accepted from the 25th June 2020 and that they will resume accepting payments over the counter from the 1st July 2020. Please note that no payments will be accepted by the National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) from the […]
Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia – ALERT
On 29 April 2020, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) issued a notice (read here). extending the closure of its operations until 12 May 2020. This is in line with the Prime Minister’s announcement on 23 April 2020 extending the movement control order to 12 May 2020. We summarise the notice below: General 01. […]
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: INTA ANNUAL MEETING 2020 HAS BEEN POSTPONED
We have had various requests from client and associates who wanted to meet us at INTA. As the organizers of INTA have decided to postpone the 2020 Annual Meeting (which was scheduled to be held in Singapore) due to the novel Coronavirus outbreak, we want to inform our clients and associates that we will be […]
Winner of the 2019 Trademark Firm of the Year Award
We are very proud to announce that John Wilson Partners received the 2019 Trademark Firm of the Year Award at the Asia IP Awards Ceremony in Malaysia. As we have been awarded the Patent Firm of the Year award for the past two years, the Trademark award was a welcome addition. The Asia IP Awards […]
Japenese Foreign Dignatory visits John Wilson Partners
Mr. John Wilson had the privilege of hosting Mr. Hirofumi Tada of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who visited Sri Lanka in December 2019. Mr. Wilson held discussions with Mr. Tada in respect of the Hague Convention Child Abduction and how these provisions have been dealt with in Sri Lanka under the implementing legislation […]