韩国知识产权局(KIPO)宣布了进一步的措施来支持“直接或间接”受新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情爆发影响的申请人。韩国知识产权局发言人在给WTR的一封电子邮件中表示，任何国籍的申请人，其申请目前在登记处待决的，办理相关手续（如提交书面意见）的期限将可以“自动延长”至2020年4月30日。申请人无需为此延期提交申请。KIPO代表补充说：“这项措施也适用于申请人因与新型冠状病毒有关的任何原因而未能遵守某些程序性手续时限的情况，KIPO将这些视为申请人无法控制的原因，因此不归责于他们。申请人只需简单地在声明中指出未能遵守时限的原因与新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情有关。这一事后补救措施也将提供至2020年4月30日。”

The KIPO has announced further measures to support applicants "directly and indirectly" affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. In an email to WTR, a KIPO spokesperson said that, regardless of their nationality, applicants whose applications is currently pending before the registry will be granted "an automatic extension" for certain actions (such as submission of written opinion) to 30 April 2020. Applicants will not be required to file a request for this extension to take effect. The KIPO representative added: "This measure also applies to the cases where applicants have failed to observe time limits for certain procedural actions for any reasons relating to the Covid-19, as KIPO will regard such reasons as the causes beyond their control and therefore not imputable to them. All they will be asked to do is just indicating in the statement simply that the cause of such failure relates to the Covid-19. This ex post remedy will also be available up until 30 April 2020."

印度总理莫迪（Narendra Modi）在全国范围内实施了封锁，试图减缓冠状病毒的传播，为期21天。印度专利、外观设计、商标及地理标志管理总局（CGPDTM）在公告发布后不久指出，自3月25日起，该局将关闭21天。它补充说：“鉴于上述情况，根据不同知识产权法和法规规定的向CGPDTM管理下的办事处提交任何关于知识产权申请的到期日,如关于完成各种行为/活动、提交回复/文件、支付费用的时间/期限等，应为办事处复工的日期。”

India's prime minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus – the restrictions to be in place for 21 days. in a public notice issued shortly after India’s Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) noted that it will remain close for a period of 21 days with effect from 25 March. It adds: “In view the above, the due dates of timelines/periods prescribed under different IP acts and rules administered by the CGPDTM with respect to completion of various acts/activities, filing of any reply/document, payment of fees, etc. regarding any IP applications filed with the offices under the administrative control of the CGPDTM shall be the date on which the offices will re-open.”

南非公司与知识产权委员会（CIPC）宣布，由于国家被封锁，客户目前无法与CIPC联络，CIPC也将提前结束其财政年度。预计电子服务将于2020年4月1日恢复。

South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) has announced that, due to a national lockdown, customers can not currently interact with CIPC, which has also brought forward its financial year end. It anticipates that electronic services will resume on 1 April 2020.

文章来源：

https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/brand-management/ip-offices-implement-measures-in-wake-of-coronavirus-crisis

 翻译：张王祎