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“Blackhorse is in many ways the mother of all pro bono cases,” Wilson Brown of Drinker Biddle & Reath declared in yesterday’s session, Taking the Ball and Running with a Pro Bono Case Like the Redskins Trademark Cancellation Action.

On January 30 2015, the Ministry of Finance introduced Circular 13/2015/ TT-BTC guiding the implementation of regulations in the new Law on Customs on Customs enforcement against IP infringement. Circular 13 took effect on March 15 2015, and, in line with the new law, brought about changes to the border control measures that had been in place in Vietnam for the past decade. Two months into the new regime, it appears that these changes, though seemingly not substantial, have increased the transparency as well as the effectiveness of Customs enforcement.

INTA has recently hired two senior staff members in its Washington, D.C. office. Deborah Cohn, formerly Commissioner for Trademarks at the USPTO, has joined as Senior Director of Government Relations while Lori Schulman, most recently General Counsel for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), became Senior Director of Internet Policy.

The EU Council has adopted a decision requesting the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty by the EU

Community trade mark renewal fees will be cut; measures to combat goods in transit will be strengthened; and some registration procedures will be harmonized following a deal struck by EU institutions on April 21.

Ford making its electrified vehicle patents available, the Obama administration siding with Oracle in its copyright case with Google, US patent grants falling in 2015, the latest in the Stairway to Heaven case, and the Supreme Court using the term “patent troll” for the first time were in the IP headlines in the past week

San Diego-based semiconductor company Qualcomm receives a lot of attention for its patent activities, but it also has about 3,000 trademark registrations and applications. Senior Legal Counsel Jill Abasto explains its trademark strategy.

The Korean IP Office (KIPO) wants to slash pendency times and increase customer convenience through use of IT and mobile technology.

Ahead of this year’s Annual Meeting, Michael Loney met J. Scott Evans in New York to discuss brands, bylaws and the Internet.

The INTA Board of Directors yesterday approved a policy resolution from the Limits on Trademark Use Subcommittee of the Emerging Issues Committee. The resolution sets forth INTA’s position regarding restrictions on trademark use through plain and standardized product packaging.