🗃️ The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents or the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It is a treaty signed between member states to speed up the certification process
Date: April 25, 2020
🤔 Ever wonder why some countries take a long time for the documents to be approved before trademark can be filed? This is due to a process called the legalisation. In international law, this is a process of authenticating or certifying a legal document so a foreign country’s legal system will
📜 Power of Attorney (POA) – If you had filed a trademark before you have definitely encountered with the term POA. But what is it for? It is basically an instrument that provides for the appointment of the Donee, a recipient of power (usually a lawyer) as attorney of the Donor, giver of power
⚖️ Apple Inc. once filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com over their Appstore for Amazon. The term “App Store” was first filed by Apple Inc. for their digital distribution platform (Apple launched App Store in July 2008 and Amazon launched theirs on March 2011)