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It’s back! Research for the annual Managing IP survey begins next week. Here’s all you need to know

In August, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision in Central Garden & Pet Company v Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. The TTAB cancelled a trade mark registration for the mark Zilla because the assignment of the underlying application was improper. The decision highlights the need for parties to give special consideration to the manner in which the assignment of intent-to-use-based trade mark applications are treated when structuring corporate transactions.

In recent ruling relating to the legal effect granted to coexistence agreements, the Mexican Supreme Court has confirmed the National IP Office (IMPI) criterion determining that they cannot have legal effects in order to allow coexistence of marks held to be confusingly similar, no matter whether the concerned trade mark owners are sister or related corporate persons.

Induced patent infringement holds a person liable for influencing or inducing another person to perform acts that constitute infringement of a patent. The degree of knowledge required to establish induced infringement in Canada is different from some other countries, such as the United States.

In a recent judgment dated June 13, 2013 (Association for Molecular Pathology, Et Al., Petitioners v Myriad Genetics Inc., Et Al), the US Supreme Court held that under US Law an isolated segment of naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and is not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated. On the other hand, the Court affirmed that synthetically created DNA (or complementary DNA, cDNA) is patent eligible and does not present the same obstacles to patentability as naturally occurring, isolated DNA segments.

As the US Congress intensifies its review of copyright law, key stakeholders urge lawmakers to give industry-led initiatives a chance

Pillsbury has recruited Qian Huang, a lawyer who handles patent procurement and litigation, as a partner in its Northern Viriginia office.

Trade mark practitioners are in Monte Carlo this week, discussing everything from gTLDs to genericisation to geographical indications. Here are some highlights from today at the MARQUES conference

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It’s not all drinking and gambling at the MARQUES conference in Monte Carlo. Here are five tidbits from today’s meetings, where some 760 professionals from 70 countries are discussing trade mark issues