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Rights holders are looking to south-east Asia as the next growth region. Lawyers from Hechanova & Co, Henry Goh & Co and Tilleke & Gibbins explain the latest changes in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

This month's column looks at Monty Python-esque seminars, Hong Kong websites and patenting heart gestures

Taking office just a month after the election of President Park Geun-hye, Commissioner Kim Young-min discusses with Peter Leung the new administration’s plans to encourage IP creation, and expected changes to its IP laws

In the June 2012 issue of Managing IP, we reported on a novel calculation of application fees at the German PTO. While there was some ambiguity in the wording of the new law on costs in patent affairs, the legislator has now confirmed in proposed amendments to the law that, upon nationalisation of a PCT application, based on the number of claims as originally filed, fees must be paid for each claim in excess of 10 claims (€20/€30 for electronic/paper filing). Thus, for applications with a high number of original claims, substantial additional fees must be paid with no option for reduction by reducing the number of claims upon entry into the German national phase.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but not so far as spare parts are concerned. This is the implication of a recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal, in which the court dismissed an appeal by BMW to an earlier ruling by the North Gauteng High Court.

Any human activity that causes damage creates the need to implement reparatory mechanisms. A party infringing a trade mark uses a good that does not belong to them and accomplishes this misappropriation to obtain a benefit.

In a recent ruling the Supreme Court of the Netherlands found that an appeal judge has the right to evaluate the evidence presented on appeal in a different and possibly even broader manner. This ruling resulted from a cassation brought by Global Bio Company – Chem Technology Group Lt et al (GBT) against rulings made by the Court of Appeal in The Hague.

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has issued a judgment holding two Swiss trade mark registrations for the word-mark You invalid on the grounds that the word You must remain free for use in commerce.

Apple and Samsung are fighting litigation with each other all over the world, and Japan is no exception. Here we run through the outcomes and implications of the three cases.

Fashion companies often use their distinctive house marks in conjunction with multiple secondary marks to serve as a single source identifier for their product lines. The house mark groups the multiple different product offerings under the solitary heading of a well-known brand. The inclusion of the house mark could play a pivotal role in determining whether a likelihood of confusion exists between two otherwise similar marks.