News And Analysis

• Making—and keeping—your mark in Asia

  May 07, 2012

  Emma Barraclough explains why linguistic and legal differences make it so important to understand the requirements for trademark use in Asia.

• KIPO welcomes new commissioner

  May 03, 2012

  President Myung-bak Lee has appointed a new Commissioner, Ho-won Kim, to head the Korea Intellectual Property Office. Kim’s term began on May 1

• What’s on this week

  April 30, 2012

  Managing IP lists the IP decisions, conferences and events to watch out for this week

• Asia-Pacific marks World IP Day

  April 26, 2012

  The Asia-Pacific region is the first to celebrate World IP Day. Peter Leung in Hong Kong rounds up some of the activities

• IP news quiz, March 12 to 16

  March 16, 2012

  Test your knowledge of IP news with our five quick questions on the past week’s developments

• Foreign law firms inch their way into Korea

  March 15, 2012

  Korea’s legal market is opening up to US firms, with eight so far planning to practise there. How will IP work be affected?

• Dutch court blocks Samsung smartphones

  August 24, 2011

  Samsung will be barred from distributing three models of its Galaxy smartphone after rival Apple won a preliminary injunction in The Netherlands - and scrutiny over its tablet continues in Germany

• When trademarks and online games mix

  May 26, 2011

  How are trade mark rights affected by online games? A recent discussion compared protection in the US, Canada and Korea

• MoU between OHIM and KIPO

  May 25, 2011

  A memorandum of understanding between OHIM and KIPO agrees some immediate cooperation and contains ambitious plans for classification and shared data

• Global awards 2011 – full list of winners

  April 07, 2011

  Managing IP presented more than 60 awards to the leading firms in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America at the annual global awards dinner in London last night. Here are the winners:

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  Madrid applications grow by 13%

  April 04, 2011

  WIPO received 39,687 applications through the Madrid System in 2010, with the biggest growth coming from South Korea, China and Italy

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  EU-Korea FTA recognises geographical indications

  September 29, 2010

  Koreans who like to wash down a piece of Camembert de Normandie with a glass of Bordeaux wine will find it easier to obtain the genuine products from next year when an EU-Korea FTA comes into effect

• US to push for standardisation at IP5

  April 12, 2010

  The US will recommend "dramatic acceleration" of standardisation projects at this week’s meeting of the five largest IP offices in Beijing

• gTLD demand will be limited, says Icann

  November 09, 2009

  Icann is pressing ahead with plans to launch new generic top-level domains but expects just a few hundred applications, rather than the thousands some brand owners fear

• Registries and registrars split on ownership reform

  November 09, 2009

  The approval of non-Latin internationalised domain names overshadowed an important debate between registries and registrars on ownership structures at Icann’s Seoul conference

• Qualcomm under fire in Asia

  August 03, 2009

  South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined US telecommunications company Qualcomm W260 billion ($208 million) for abusing its dominance in the local market and ordered it to stop discriminating against companies that use competing products