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The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered a textile discounter company to pay an indemnification of €600,000 for commercialising bags infringing a bag producer's trade mark in its Belgian and Dutch shops. In an attempt to reduce the damages due, the textile discounter raised, for the first time in appeal, the argument that the Belgian courts would not be competent for the trade mark infringement committed in the Netherlands. The Court of Appeal rejected that argument, and so did the Belgian Supreme Court in its judgment of January 2 2014.

In this issue, we report on a recent decision handed down by the Austrian Supreme Court in a design infringement case.

The Australian Patents Act contains a provision that licensees can terminate a patent licence on three months notice after the patent has expired. The recent case of MPEG LA v Regency Media [2014] FCA 180 considered the case of the right to terminate when a patent pool arrangement is in existence and the licence covers multiple pool patents, such as the MPEG patent applications.

Under Argentine Law, ownership of a trade mark and the right to the exclusive use thereof are acquired by registration in accordance with Article 4 of Law 22,362 which has adopted the attributive system. Consequently, in principle, if there is no registration of a trade mark, there is no right thereto.

With a population of some 165 million, Nigeria is far and away Africa's most populous country. It's also well on track to becoming Africa's biggest economy in terms of GDP. But how is its IP?

On March 31, the US Supreme Court will hear Alice v CLS Bank – a case that is likely to have far-reaching consequences for software and business method patents. We round up the amici briefs and answer the big questions around the controversial case

Does the revolving door or the job-for-life approach work best for IP offices, IP owners and the general public?

A new Android patent deal for Microsoft, the Senate mulling further provisions for patent reform, InterDigital reportedly agreeing to FRAND terms for its patents in China, the Wu-Tang Clan’s novel approach to releasing music, and the USPTO's 700,000th design patent were among the IP stories hitting the headlines this week

What has been the reaction to the USPTO’s guidelines on the AMP v Myriad Genetics decision from the US Supreme Court?

India’s legal system, including its trade mark registry, has long been criticised for long pendency times and a morass of bureaucratic obstacles. However, a recent push toward digitisation has brought much-welcomed efficiency gains. Peter Leung reports