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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.

At the beginning of this year, Indonesia has been coloured by an issue covered by various Indonesian media regarding a new conflict over the domain name HYPERLINK "http://www.bmw.id" \h www.bmw.id. The conflict is between an Indonesian national, Benny Muliawan, and the well-known automotive company, Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).

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

The High Court has recently clarified the operation of the extension of time provisions insofar as they relate to lodgement of a request for an extension of patent term for a pharmaceutical patent.

On January 20 , the General Court issued a decision in respect of a Community design registration for a heat exchanger. This heat exchanger to which the contested design was applied was presented as a part of a complex product, namely a household boiler. A direct competitor of the applicant filed a claim with OHIM to declare the design invalid, on the ground that the design as registered did not remain visible after its installation in the boiler, and therefore did not constitute a valid design in the sense of the Regulation.

Cricket fans from around the world are about to feast themselves on the bowling and batting of their favourite teams as the 20th ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 takes place in Australia and New Zealand.

In the case of Ricardo Honrado v GMA Network Films, docketed as GR No 204702, the Supreme Court of the Philippines in its decision dated January 14 2015, showed the need for clearer language in drafting licensing agreements.

As reported in our article in July 2014, the interim decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of April 25 2014 in case R 19/12 has highlighted a statutory imperfection of the patent system in Europe. More specifically, it follows from the decision that the judicial independence of the Boards of Appeal which follows from Article 23 EPC may not be reconcilable with the organisational ties of the vice president of the Boards of Appeal to the management of the EPO.

At last, the Trade Mark Act 2014 amendment, which will come into effect on April 1 2015, has introduced new kinds of trade marks such as colour marks and sound marks. In the United States, Christian Louboutin had filed a lawsuit against Yves Saint Laurent for an infringement of Louboutin's trade mark, consisting of a red, lacquered outsole on a high fashion woman's shoe. We may expect similar lawsuits in Japan in the near future.

Recently, the Mexican Trade Mark Office found that a Mexican company had infringed the image of a Mexican actor. However, the use was found in an advertisement for a hairstyling product in a store in Puerto Rico. The authority sustained that since the parties were both Mexican and the related product was made in and exported from Mexico, it has enough authority to sanction an infringement for the non-authorised use of the image for commercial purposes outside Mexico.