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A parliamentary committee of Indonesia's House of People's Representatives (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR)) is reviewing and discussing a draft patent law.

On April 5 2016, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) posted its proposed amendments to the implementing rules and regulations on inter partes proceedings inviting comments from the public. The proposed amendments are intended to simplify and speed up the resolution of cases before the Bureau of Legal Affairs (BLA), the adjudicating bureau of the IPOPHL.

The opt‐out possibility offered by Article 83 UPCA pays lots of attention to the choices patentees are facing with regards to their filing strategy. We focus here on defensive strategies in the new legislative framework, in particular on actions before national courts.

Under the previous rules applicable regarding registrability of a trade mark in Greece, a consent letter could admissibly be filed only before the Trade Marks Administrative Commission, not at a later stage, such as pending an appeal before the administrative courts, following the rejection of the trade mark application concerned, provided that (1) the trade marks under comparison are not identical, (2) the consent at issue is not contrary to the public interest and (3) there is no serious danger of the average consumer being deceived.

In interim proceedings between Novartis and Teva, the Dutch Court of The Hague has decided that a medicinal product may benefit from the six-month extension of the supplementary protection certificate (SPC) provided for by paediatric regulation (EC) No 1901/2006, even taking into account that the drug had previously been registered as an orphan medicinal product.

It has recently become common in Mexico to be more specific with the descriptions of products and/or services when filing a trade mark application, making it more unusual to apply for the class headings.

China's State Council will soon issue a draft of the country's first E‐Commerce Law for public comment. Provisions of this proposed law may offer new tools for protecting trade marks and other IP rights online.

A Japanese small and medium-sized enterprise challenged world leading company Apple and obtained a favourable decision. Despite the fact that parties agreed on the exclusive jurisdiction in California where Apple is headquartered, a court invalidated the jurisdiction clause and held that the Japanese court has jurisdiction.

"Born in Canada, Living in London, Made in Italy" is the brand motto of Dsquared2, the famous international fashion brand originally created by Dean and Dan Caten, twin brothers from Canada who have used the series of trade marks D2, Dsquared, D2 Dsquared2, and Dsquared2 since 1994.

The St Petersburg department of the Antimonopoly Body issued a decision in December 2015 in a dispute between two economic entities selling homogeneous goods – butter.