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Faced with heavy employee churn, sources from the connected car and automotive supply industries reveal ways to keep trade secrets just that

Chief legal counsel Elizabeth Carroll shares views on the organisation’s most innovative developments, the phase-out of innovation patents and what can be expected in the coming 12 months

While some businesses are watching Arthrex developments with bated breath, others believe it will have less impact – after the finding that PTAB judges are not constitutionally appointed

Life sciences in-house sources stress the importance of following the EPO’s strict priority claims guidelines after the Board of Appeal invalidated some of the Broad Institute’s CRISPR patents

Maria Strong at the US Copyright Office speaks to Managing IP about the Music Modernization Act, making the most of a limited budget and digitalising its recordation system

Dynamic injunctions have been the newest device used to curb the menace of resurfacing pirated websites. In a recent case, UTV & Ors. v 1337x.to & Ors., the Delhi High Court issued India's first ever dynamic injunction, putting a control on websites resurfacing with a different name, by extending an existing injunction to new websites which could emerge with a different name in the future. The objective is to help the right holder avoid the cumbersome process of filing a fresh suit. The right holder can simply approach the joint registrar of the Delhi High Court with appropriate evidentiary documents and extend the existing injunction to the website publishing the same infringing content. Until recently, the right holder had to file a fresh suit or possibly use a John Doe order/injunction by adding the party to the existing suit. Dynamic injunctions specifically help in cases where an infringing website may resurface as a redirecting, mirror or alphanumeric website.

On December 17 2019, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (equivalent to a parliament in other democracies) passed a draft bill on creating an IP and Commerce Court (IPC Court) which will consolidate the IP Court which was established in 2008. The new court, estimated to come into existence in 2021, will be made up of two independent special tribunals, the IP Tribunal and the Commercial Tribunal, governed by respective adjudication rules.

The TRIPS Agreement, to which the Philippines is a signatory, enables governments of member countries with no capacity to manufacture medicines to import/export cheaper pharmaceutical products via a compulsory licence. These are medicines for which they would otherwise have paid a higher price because of existing patents.

On March 11 2019, the Myanmar parliament enacted the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2019 (Patent Law) heralding the dawn of a new era in patent registration in Myanmar. While the new Trade Mark Law passed on January 30 2019 is expected to come into force this year, the new Patent Law is pending and will come into operation only upon notification from the president of Myanmar.

Europe’s highest court will decide Sky v SkyKick tomorrow, January 29, in a case that has attracted much attention in trademark circles