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In May 2016, the government authority the Beijing Intellectual Property Office (Beijing IPO) published a decision affirming that Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus infringe a Chinese design patent number ZL201430009113.9, owned by a Shenzhen Baili Marketing Service Co Ltd. The Beijing IP Office's decision orders Apple to stop selling the iPhone. Apple has reportedly brought a lawsuit to seek judicial review of this administrative decision. The case is pending.

Since it was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, the incandescent filament lamp had played the leading part in the illumination field for more than a century. However, in the 1990s, Nichia Corporation made a breakthrough by succeeding in the practical use and mass-production of blue LED for the first time in the world and achieved a paradigm shift in the illumination field by the practical use and mass-production of white LED. This case is about the essential patent for the blue LED.

In accordance with Article 69 EPC and the corresponding Article XI.28 of the Belgian Code of Economic Law, the scope of a granted patent is determined by the claims, and the description and drawings are to be used to interpret the claims. Similar to the Protocol on the Interpretation of Article 69 EPC, the Belgian Article XI.28 specifies that, for the purpose of determining the extent of protection conferred by a patent, due account shall be taken of any element which is equivalent to an element specified in the claims. This is the so-called doctrine of equivalence. This doctrine can be used by the patentee to claim a broader scope of protection in infringement proceedings.

Lady Gaga (through Ate My Heart Inc) owns several EU trade marks for the name for a multitude of goods and services. The services that mattered in this case are "entertainment" in class 41 contained in several of these word marks.

InnovFest unBound 2016 was a show of strength for start-up businesses in the media and digital healthcare industries. It is the flagship event in the weeklong Smart Nation Innovations event series that seeks to throw a spotlight on Asia's culture of innovation, highlight new technologies and provide a platform for forging new business relationships.

As explained in previous briefings, the New Argentine Civil and Commercial Code, in effect as of August 1 2015, includes, when addressing different issues, regulations referred to intellectual property. That is the case of regulations that govern agreements and among those agreements is the concession agreement.

Copyright offers a potentially powerful tool for addressing piracy in China of logo marks and stylised word marks in the context of oppositions and invalidations. The protection offered applies regardless of the goods or services covered by the pirated mark.

Recently, the Korean Supreme Court made a key decision regarding how to read the prior art when making an inventive step determination (2013 Hu 2873 and 2880 (consolidated), January 14 2016).

In Taiwan, a design must be "original" to be patentable. Since a design that simulates a known object is not original as required by the Patent Law, a "test for originality" will be applied in determining the patentability of a design over a piece of prior art. According to the Examination Guidelines published by Taiwan's IP Office, to determine whether two designs are similar, the designs shall be viewed from the naked eyes of ordinary consumers without the aid of any instrument. Moreover, as a design patent in Taiwan protects only the visually appreciable appearance of an article of manufacture, the mechanical function and construction of the article, as well as the operation processes involved in the use of the article are all excluded from design patent protection.

Karim Kadjar, an actor and descendant of the Iranian Kadjar dynasty which reigned over Iran from 1786 to 1925, did not appreciate the adoption by the French company Renault of the name Kadjar as a trade mark and keyword on internet search engines for designating its new crossover utility vehicle.