Where there are doubts as to the validity of a patent, a patent invalidation action may be filed with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) to request revocation of the patent, or patent invalidity may be used as a defence in infringement litigation to assert non-infringement.
On December 18 2014 the new Industrial Property Law, Number 23-13, which amends the existing act, Number 17/97, came into force in Morocco. There is a lot of substance in the new law; below is a summary of the most noteworthy changes.
In its decision "Farbversorgungssystem" (X ZR 130/10) the Federal Supreme Court discussed the requirements for applying a technical solution generally known to the person skilled in the art but not disclosed in conjunction with the specific application in question to a prior art teaching in the assessment of inventive step.
Patent litigation in India is on the increase and there is good news for pharmaceutical patentees. In three different cases, with three different factual scenarios, both Indian and foreign pharmaceutical patentees managed to score victories against generics and the Indian government.
A number of Greek collecting societies managing copyrights and related rights filed preliminary injunction actions against internet service providers (ISPs) in 2014 before the Civil Court of Athens. These requested the defendants to take the appropriate technological or other measures, the implementation of which will make it unfeasible – impossible for their subscribers – to visit specific named websites, the content of which infringes the creators' copyrights.
Taiwan’s IP Police was founded in 2003 and has three companies with 220 officers in total, handling about 2,000 cases a year. Peter Leung spoke to the captain of the Taipei company, Wei-Hsu Chen
