The country updates are all sponsored and are contributed by the firms named. For more information on the topics raised, please contact the contributors directly. Here are this month’s topics:
Africa: Early trade mark registrations to be renewable in Burundi
Argentina: The word “new” in test data protection
Australia: Competition Policy Review targets IP
Austria: Languages in IP proceedings
Belgium: Third party trade mark use in political propaganda sanctioned
China patents: SPC proposes rules on litigation and SEPs
China trade marks: Should you record trade mark licence contracts?
EPO: Top-up search in the PCT procedure
France: Two changes to patent law proposed
Germany: New opportunities to obtain purpose-related patents
India: Originality and databases under the copyright law
Indonesia: Termination rights under the new Copyright Law
Japan: Inventor of an antibody drug
Malaysia: IP Marketplace launched
Mexico: Marketing authorisation for biocomparables
The Netherlands: Inventive step or not, that is the question
New Zealand: Shorter .nz domain names now available
The Philippines: Supreme Court reviews facts
Russia: Battle over the Elle trade mark
Singapore: Singapore appointed as international PCT authority
Switzerland: Federal Patent Court facilitates recovery of illicit profits
Taiwan: When to file divisional applications
US patents: Spotlight on first-to-publish
US trade marks: Google defeats genericness claim
Vietnam: A turning point in domain name disputes?
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