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Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has outraged the pharma and biotech industries by seeking to invalidate their patents at the PTAB, with some observers linking his attacks to short-selling of company stocks. Michael Loney reports on a controversy that goes to the heart of the US patent system

Through its IPOS International (IPOS-I) initiative, the IP Office of Singapore (IPOS) provides IP-related services to businesses. IPOS-I, which launched in January, offers patent-related services such as prior art searches, patent landscaping and analytics. Peter Leung reports

Rumours of the death of software patents are greatly exaggerated, say Elliot Cook, Brandon Bludau and Darren Jiron. Various software-based inventions were patented by the USPTO at rates even higher in 2014 than previous years while many types of software patents are being upheld by courts

Licences constitute the most common contractual negotiations (at a local, regional and international level) entered into by trade mark owners and involve a contractual mechanism by means of which the owner of a trade mark (licensor) acts jointly with other entrepreneurs (licensees) with the aim of extending the production and distribution of products or services identified with the corresponding trade mark.

The industrial Property Act 2014 came into effect on March 1 2015.

The Swiss company Capri Sun owns an International registration (number 677879), also designating Benelux for a 3D mark representing a silver reflecting pouch meant as a container for liquid, such as fruit drinks, also known under the trade mark Capri-Sun (marketed as pictured).

The US Supreme Court has rejected the argument that a good faith belief in a patent’s invalidity is a defence against liability for inducement to infringe

In a first for Australia, a copyright owner has been successful in forcing an internet service provider (ISP) to hand over the contact details of internet account holders of about 4,700 IP addresses that have been identified as having been used to download pirate versions of the movie 'Dallas Buyers Club'.

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam

McDonald's opposed the trade mark McBerg for clothing et al in class 25, for services for education, entertainment et al in class 41 and for providing food and drinks, provision of accommodation in class 43. Likewise it opposed four other trade marks McMountain, McTyrol, McTirol (figurative) and McTirol (word) registered for the same goods and services. The opposition was based on several registered trade marks namely Mc (figurative), Ronald McDonald, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald Playland, McBurger, MacSki (figurative) and McKids. The first five trade marks are registered in classes 41 and 42 (among others), the last one only in class 25.