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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.

Gabriela Kennedy is leaving the Hong Kong office of Hogan Lovells to join Mayer Brown JSM as head of Asia IP.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte has released the second version of a discussion draft designed to combat opportunistic patent litigation

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.