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Cross-border trade secret leakage has become common due to an expansion of international trade and exchange of human resources. The Supreme Court has clarified the criteria for recognising and executing a foreign judgment where a US company sought in the Japanese court the execution of a US judgment that ordered an injunction and damages on the ground of trade secret infringement under California law.

Although second medical use patents are allowed and granted in Mexico, achieving the exclusive exploitation derived from this protection by the owner or licensee presents several challenges. As in other countries, there is legal uncertainty regarding how the owner can actually show infringement.

In a decision of March 17 2015, the Court of Appeal in the Hague confirmed the judgment of July 31 2013 of the first instance court in invalidating the Netherlands part of European patent EP 1224954 with respect to a fire extinguishing post (bluspost in Dutch). This judgment under appeal was based on a claim filed by the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (RWS) in the Netherlands. In the judgment, the Netherlands part of the patent was invalidated among other reasons for lack of novelty in view of a memo of the RWS as sent to one of the competitors of the patent owner Doebros.

Christoph Rieken will join law firm Noerr on May 1. He was formerly head of the German IP practice at Ashurst

In recent New Zealand cases, there are interesting insights into protecting secondary marks, and how the courts respond when a mark has generally been used in conjunction with another mark.

China’s newest draft revision to the Patent Law brings a raft of changes, including provisions to encourage patent licensing as well as strengthen design patent protection

In order to promote a culture of fair competition in the region, ASEAN member states have committed to adopt in their own jurisdictions by 2015 competition law and policy, under the ASEAN Economic Community's (AEC) Blueprint. In his first state of the nation address in 2010, Philippine president Benigno Aquino III made the promulgation of an antitrust law a priority in his administration to ensure that the market is fair for all, allowing "small and medium scale enterprises to participate in the growth of our economy".

Trade marks numbers 381529 and 281919 are for versions of a word trade mark Black Russian. An interested person filed an appeal against the registrations. The Patent Office accepted the appeal, stating that the disputed designation in regard to the goods cocktails in class 33 is of descriptive character and is a kind of goods because it reproduces the name of an alcoholic drink of a certain composition with a long history.

As international businesses settle into their long term China strategies, intellectual property becomes increasingly important. Download our China Focus for insights onto the increasingly mature but complex Chinese IP system

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