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Despite the decades-long trend of US general practice firms acquiring intellectual property boutiques, strong boutiques are expected to survive

The Capitol Records v ReDigi ruling that pre-owned digital music sales infringe copyright “represents a textbook example of perceived outdated provisions of a law written prior to the digital age, enforced by judges who … are bound to interpret it as written”

We look back at some of the biggest intellectual property stories of 2018

Inês Monteiro Alves and João Pereira Cabral of Inventa International examine the reasons behind the setting up of ARIPO as well as its functions, composition, relationship to other agreements and benefits

Managing IP is delighted to announce the launch of its Rising Stars publication

The USPTO in 2017 began randomly auditing US trade mark registrations upon receipt of Declarations of Continuing Use. Andrea Anderson discusses how the programme works and provides tips for what to do if you are audited

On October 26 2018, the Sixth Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China passed the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Several Issues Concerning the Proceedings of Intellectual Property Rights and Other Intellectual Property Cases" (hereinafter referred to as the Decision), which made major adjustments to the current appeal mechanism for cases concerning patents and technical secrets. The Decision will take effect on January 1 2019. It will definitely have a significant and far-reaching impact on the trials of China's burgeoning number of technical cases.

We recently reported on the opinion of the advocate general (AG) in the case CJEU (C-121/17) concerning supplementary protection certificates (SPC) and the question of when a product, which is not explicitly mentioned in the basic patent, is protected by the basic patent, according to Article 3 (a) of Regulation (EC) No 496/2009. While it has been clarified that infringement rules cannot be applied, it is still not clear which test should be used for assessing the requirement of Article 3(a). Recently, the CJEU issued a judgment on this case which interestingly differs on this point from the opinion of the AG.

India’s Patent Office is gathering input on reforming Form 27. IP practitioners hope changes to the burdensome statement regarding the working of the patented invention will come this year

Managing IP presents this year’s leading female intellectual property practitioners, according to IP STARS research