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Toyota sharing hydrogen car patents, China aiming to double patent applications, a judge saying IV cannot be called a troll, Google takedown notices increasing 75%, Apple being granted bendable iPhone patents, and Coca-Cola seeking to trade mark hashtags were among the intellectual property stories hitting the headlines this week

Former WIPO deputy director general James Pooley has launched an independent practice focusing on IP strategy and litigation in patents and trade secrets

In newly revealed US patent recipient rankings for 2014, IBM has become the first company to have more than 7,000 patents granted in a year while Google’s 39% increase over 2013 pushes it into the top 10, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services

Mark Heaney has joined the London office of Baker Botts as a partner in the IP group

Omnibus claims are added to patents in some jurisdictions as a catch all warning to potential infringers. They generally take the form of "the product/method substantially as described with reference to the drawings and/or examples".

Major updates have recently been made to Thailand's Customs laws and procedures regarding transit of goods through Thailand and transshipment. In addition, brand owners must now record their marks to comply with the Royal Thai Customs Department's new Customs recordation procedures.

Article 4 of the Indonesian Trade Mark Law stipulates that a mark shall not be registered on the basis of an application filed by an applicant who does not have good faith. In its elucidation, it is explained that an applicant having good faith is an applicant that files their mark in an honest and proper way without any intention to imitate, to manipulate or to improperly join a well-known mark owned by another party in order to benefit from the situation that may cause loss to the trade mark owner's side, or create unfair competition, confusing and misleading the consumers.

Will India’s National IPR Policy help to unleash the country’s innovation potential? Pankaj Soni examines the policy and what more needs to be done

John Welch has joined Wolf Greenfield & Sacks as counsel in the trade mark group

It took 19 tries, but the PTAB has been overturned in a Federal Circuit appeal for the first time in Microsoft v Proxyconn. Patent holders take comfort that the Federal Circuit is not merely rubber stamping decisions but it is unclear how the Board will deal with the remand