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Zhao Jiaxing of KingSound & Partners analyses how the Patent Law amendments have affected the prosecution and enforcement of design patents

Hongyi Jiang of LexField Law Offices in Beijing provides a guide to patent litigation in China, focusing on the process, timing and award of damages

New SIPO Regulations and Guidelines came into force this year. Stephen Yang of Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd examines how they affect issues such as security examination, PCT applications and design patents

Confidential information relating can take the form of any business formula, process, R&D capabilities, client-related or operational information that ought to be protected as a trade secret. Any breach in handling such confidential information violates the IP rights of the concerned party and has been pursued through the courts on many occasions. The Delhi High Court has deliberated on the misuse of confidential information relating to industrial drawings and the grant of permanent injunction to restrain those drawings in case of Action Construction Equipment v Gulati Industrial Fabric P Ltd IA no 10073/2006 IN CS(OS) no 1740/2006.

On December 28 2009 the Supreme People's Court of China issued the Interpretation on Several Issues as to the Application of Laws Concerning Patent Infringement Cases. The Interpretation came into effect on January 1 2010.

Hulu has become one of the most popular places for US audiences to watch TV and movies online. Eileen McDermott examines whether the model has a fighting chance

With companies struggling to adapt from traditional to digital models of generating revenue from copyrighted content, a number of businesses have lessons to offer content owners. Eileen McDermott reports

China’s courts are increasingly willing to hear actions for declarations of non-infringement of patents. Qi Wang and Shaohui Du of Deqi explain how to make the most of the procedure

When the USPTO issues a refusal to register a trade mark application based upon a likelihood of confusion with an existing third party registration covering a similar mark, one option that the owner of the refused application has available to it is to approach the owner of the cited registration to obtain a Consent to Registration. A Consent to Registration is essentially a written acknowledgement by the owner of a trade mark registration, which can be submitted to the PTO, attesting that there is no likelihood of confusion between the mark that is the subject of the existing registration and the mark that is the subject of the pending application.

With a significantly higher level of regulation over trade mark licences introduced by the 2007 trade mark law, we might have expected to see an increase in the number of licence recordals, but that is not apparent from the number of licences published in the official journal.