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Frederick Frei and Sean Wooden analyse case law around inequitable conduct one year after the landmark decision in Therasense v Becton Dickinson, and find that the defence remains viable

On May 31, the Portuguese government published Ordinance 176/2012 with a new table of official fees for the Portuguese PTMO. There is now a substantial increase in annuities from the sixth year of patents, an increase in the fees for applications of trade marks, logotypes, awards, appellations of origin and geographic indications, and for fees relating to renewals of trade mark registrations and logotypes.

Technology transfer in China is growing, but many uncertainties remain. Wenhui Zhang, Guanyu Wang and Fangtao Sun suggest solutions to seven common problems

Recently, Heineken Romania SA, the Romanian part of the Heineken international group, successfully invoked two senior national trade marks in its portfolio in a cancellation action filed with the Bucharest Tribunal against a combined national trademark registered for goods in class 32.

The Chamber of Patent Disputes recently examined an appeal filed by Jaguar Cars against trade mark 414218 (below).

James Nurton spoke to Michel Lacoste of the eponymous clothing company during the INTA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC in May this year, about branding, counterfeits and the internet

Thailand has several amendments in the pipeline for the Trade Marks Act. Amongst them is the introduction of smell and sound marks. The bill extends the meaning of a "mark" to include non-visual trade marks such as sounds and smells, which will bring Thai trade mark law in line with international standards.

Trade mark applications filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office are typically reviewed by an examining attorney in the order in which they are received. In practice, this means that a trade mark applicant would usually not expect to receive any action on a newly filed application for approximately three to four months from the filing date. Although certain rights are conferred to an applicant upon filing, in certain instances special circumstances may exist in which an applicant requires that its application receive priority in the order in which it is reviewed. With those needs in mind, the USPTO has established a procedure whereby a trade mark applicant can file a petition to make its application "special" and reviewed faster than otherwise.

With hundreds of new strings applied for, how should I approach them?

The Black IPs rock out at CIPA, aliens ask for copyright rights to the Earth's music, and some eyebrow issues