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We have been following the reporting of Inter Partes Review (IPR) filings by the Coalition for Affordable Drugs against pharmaceutical patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, writes Nick Richards of Bristows in London

Peter Leung visited Beijing’s new IP Court and interviewed Judge Chen Jinchuan, vice president of the Court, about its aims, its first cases and why he listens to French radio every morning. Plus: more news and analysis on China’s new IP Courts

In-house counsel say they want more information on the Unitary Patent and UPC. Here’s some of our recent coverage – and a glimpse at what we have planned

Data provided to Managing IP by IFI Claims Patent Services reveals the law firms used the most for US utility patents granted in 2014, with Oblon leading the pack

The average price paid per patent in acquisitions of US portfolios increased last year but the median price fell, according to patent broker IPOfferings

Managing IP marks its 25th anniversary this year. Here are some of the landmarks in our development, from the launch of the magazine in 1990 to the world of webinars, Twitter and our Chinese-language website

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 the commercial and business fields, it is common to use expressions such as corporate name, trade name and designation almost indistinctively. However, these expressions must be clearly specified and distinguished.

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.

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.