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USPTO director David Kappos gave prizes to retired commissioner for trademarks Lynne Beresford and former chief IP counsel of 3M Gary Griswold at Managing IP’s North America awards ceremony in Washington DC last night

The Australian Government has this month introduced draft legislation, entitled Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011, sponsored by the Australian Patents Office, to amend the Patents Act in two fundamental areas.

Following the dispute between the Belgian company Engels and the Korean car manufacturer Daewoo for the exclusive right to use a logo composed of the letters DE, light was shed by the Benelux Court of Justice on the question of whether the owner of a lapsed trade mark can preclude a third party from using a confusing sign by invoking provisions on unfair competition (Daewoo Electronics Europe v D Engels).

Everybody who has ever been to Austria for skiing is likely to have come across the famous mixed drink Flügerl. A Flügerl is a shot-like drink consisting of a Red Bull and red or white vodka, and is very commonly offered at après-ski huts in Austrian ski resorts. The trade mark Flügerl has been registered for non-alcoholic drinks (class 32) as well as for alcoholic drinks (class 33).

The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security jointly published the Opinion on Various Issues Relating to the Applicable Laws for Handling Criminal IP Infringement Cases on January 11 2011, effective immediately. The Opinion aims at further clarifying issues that remain unclear under the two earlier opinions jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate in respectively December 2004 and April 2007.

The US House of Representatives Wednesday introduced a 134-page patent reform bill, but concerns expressed in a subsequent hearing suggest the process will not move quickly

Law No 4 of February 3 2011 entitled Regulations on the Labeling and Quality of Alimentary Products was published in the Official Journal on February 19 2011.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that Pernod Ricard cannot renew its trade mark for Havana Club in the US

Thomas Pattloch has left his post as IP officer at the EU delegation to China and Mongolia in Beijing to join the Munich office of UK full-service law firm TaylorWessing.

Good news for applicants in Mexico of patents claiming Paris Convention priority or PCT applications. On March 1 2011 the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office launched a pilot programme under which the Patent Department will accept examinations by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).