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  • The Israel Patent Law is anomalous in that pending applications do not publish automatically 18 months after priority. Only after allowance is an abstract published and the file becomes available for inspection. However, basic details of new patent filings, including the name of applicant, title, priority and filing dates were required by law, to be published in the Official Israel Patent Office Gazette (Reshumot in Hebrew) shortly after filing.
  • A drive to speed up the processing of divisional applications in Australia has caught out a number of patent applicants and led to complaints that the time limits are too strict
  • What is an embryo? Advocate General M Yves Bot provided his opinion on this in case C-34/10 (Brüstle v Greenpeace).
  • As we wrote in the previous issue of Managing Intellectual Property, before 1992 Norway did not accept product patents on active ingredients in medicaments, only "analogous method of preparation" claims were accepted. This means that there will be active patents in Norway comprising such claims until the end of 2011 and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) throughout 2016.
  • On March 8 2011, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) published on its website Office Order Number 186 Series of 2010, which amends its regulations on administrative complaints for IP rights violations. The amendments focus on the provisions affecting the issuance of a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. Under the old rules, a temporary restraining order shall only be issued after all the parties are heard in a summary hearing, which shall be conducted within 24 hours of the sheriff's return of service and after the records are received by the assigned hearing officer. Moreover, under the same old rules, a writ of preliminary injunction shall have a maximum life of 90 days, and after payment of a cash bond.
  • The registries stakeholder group has condemned Icann staff for not communicating with the .jobs registry before sending it a breach notice
  • A company has lost a UDRP dispute after it failed to produce any evidence of its claimed trade mark licence for pharmaceuticals company Amgen’s mark Kineret
  • The .info registry Afilias is now taking proposals for one- and two-character .info domains, the latest in top-level domain to do so.
  • Despite finally being given approval by Icann, the.xxx domain is likely to be blocked in some of Asia’s fastest growing economies, including India and China
  • As the parties in the Google Books case consider their next steps following the March 22 rejection of their settlement agreement, other copyright holders are monitoring the case’s impact on their interests
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