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China’s Supreme People’s Court released its list of the 10 most important IP cases from 2013 along with the 10 most innovative and 50 most typical disputes

Ahead of this year’s World IP Day on April 26, and following his recent re-election as WIPO Director General, Francis Gurry spoke to Managing IP about movies, piracy and his favourite film

The theme of this year’s World IP Day is “Movies – A Global Passion”, so Managing IP has compiled 15 questions about IP in the movies. How many can you answer?

The past two months have seen some important developments with the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, and readers can now download our most recent Europe IP Focus for more background information

Aereo will battle it out with broadcasters at the Supreme Court in oral arguments taking place on April 22. Here’s a look at some of the main attorneys working on the case

The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday about whether online TV service Aereo violates broadcasters’ copyrights in ABC v Aereo, a case that has united bitter online streaming rivals and high-tech companies against broadcasters and the White House

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today (Monday April 21) in POM Wonderful v Coca-Cola in part of a trend of the court taking more interest in trade mark cases

Aereo will face the broadcasters accusing it of copyright infringement in the Supreme Court on April 22. But how did the online streaming service and its rival FilmOn X (formerly known as Aereokiller) fare in the lower courts?

Patents are engines of growth and are critical to the vitality of the pharmaceutical industry. They create the incentive for pharmaceutical companies to maintain their investments to find new and better cures for global health issues, and to improve the health of people around the world. From an economic perspective, patents also give their holders an upper hand over other competitors. In Vietnam, many generic pharmaceutical companies try to illegally use others' patented inventions in their own products, in order to gain an unfair advantage and compete with the patentees' drugs.

32 US lawmakers lambasting Canada’s IP standards, record labels and movie studios suing Megaupload, Tennessee passing patent troll legislation, Australia granting trade mark protection to Scotch, and a judge ruling in favour of Jay-Z were among the stories hitting the headlines in the past week