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  • Teresa Stanek Rea, who has headed the USPTO since David Kappos left the Office in January, is to step down from her role as acting director. President Obama has not yet appointed a permanent successor to Kappos. Now that he has filled the position of Secretary of Commerce, however, he is expected to move quickly to appoint a new director – also known as the Under-Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property.
  • Judges at China's top court are considering how to revise a judicial interpretation to help guide lower courts on the granting of preliminary injunctions in IP cases.
  • China is getting richer and its population is ageing. That's a dream combination for pharmaceutical companies. But while there are plenty of opportunities for the drugs industry in the country, companies also face challenges.
  • The amount of work member states have to do to prepare for the Unified Patent Court will prove a bigger challenge than Spain’s opposition to the new system, EPO official Margot Fröhlinger said last week
  • There was plenty of angst in Munich last week at Managing IP’s European Patent Reform Forum. You may not be surprised to hear that it centred on the issue of bifurcation and the Unified Patent Court
  • US politicians and industry organisations urged President Barrack Obama to apply pressure on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over his country’s IP policies during Singh’s recent visit to the White House
  • A group of technology companies – including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung – has written an open letter to EU policy makers expressing concerns about the UPC rules of procedure, particularly regarding bifurcation and injunctions
  • Myanmar’s draft trade mark law is now before parliament and is closely watched by foreign rights holders eager to enter the recently opened up market
  • Last week, key members of Hong Kong’s government introduced the basic outline of its IP trading hub strategy. Does this signal the next stage toward the city’s ambitions, or that it is falling behind?
  • Bracewell & Giuliani has added IP litigator Douglas Stewart, previously ofDorsey & Whitney, to the firm’s Seattle IP litigation practice.