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Here's where you can find details of all the winners of the Global Awards 2016, held at The Savoy London on March 10

Managing IP has joined law firms, IP firms, barristers' chambers, associations and companies in signing the IP Inclusive charter

Paul Ranjard and Zhu Zhigang of Wan Hui Da analyse how China’s new IP courts have improved enforcement and highlight some important decisions

The Ninth Circuit amending its Dancing Baby copyright opinion, an RPX shareholder demanding a change in management, Uniloc offering to buy Acacia, Adidas being granted an injunction against Skechers, the US again being named the top filer of international patent applications, and a dispute over the trade marks relating to Yosemite National Park were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

Managing IP, in partnership with Adams & Adams, will host our first Africa Roadshow in New York CIty on April 6. You can attend free of charge or, if you are not in New York, listen to part of the programme online

Katrina Burchell and Célia Ullmann share their views on the struggles companies face in organising their brand protection internal structure, budgets and reporting lines

Till Lampel and Martina Pfaff review recent decisions from German courts regarding trade marks, in particular some notable decisions from the Federal Supreme Court

Managing IP is delighted to be working with the GACG on the 2016 Global Anti-Counterfeiting Awards. Nominations can now be made

US courts have long held that consent agreements should be given "great weight" by the USPTO when determining whether there is a likelihood of confusion between an applied-for mark and an existing registration. Indeed, the USPTO's Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP) specifically states that the USPTO "should not substitute its judgment concerning likelihood of confusion for the judgment of the real parties in interest without good reason, that is, unless the other relevant factors clearly dictate a finding of a likelihood of confusion". Recently, however, in In re Bay State Brewing Company, Inc, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision in which it decided to affirm a likelihood of confusion refusal, notwithstanding the fact that the parties at issue had entered into a consent agreement.

Does exporting parts or components of a patented product for final assembly outside the country infringe the patent? Recently, the Korean Supreme Court answered this question for the first time in Korea in its decision 2014Da42110 (July 23 2015).