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The price drop of original medicinal products in Greece has always been triggered by the expiry of the first patent covering the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of the product in question.

Over the past few years trade mark protection in the Middle East has become more attractive to brand owners worldwide. And with increasing demand for more comprehensive trade mark protection, it has become more and more important to consider issues of local language and culture.

It is common practice for computer games to feature likenesses of sports teams (for example PS3 All Blacks Rugby Challenge) or sports stars (such as Michael Jordan in NBA 2K11 for PS3). But what happens when the creators of a game use an athlete's likeness without permission?

On May 7 1997, Caterpillar Inc, a US company, filed two trade mark applications for its marks Caterpillar and design and Cat and design covering goods in class 14, such as watches, clocks, cuff links and tie tacks. On December 11 and 12 2002, Manolo P Samson, a Filipino businessman, filed his opposition against Caterpillar's trade mark applications.

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has announced that a two-year pilot patent prosecution highway (PPH) programme between Singapore and China is targeted to start on September 1 2013. IPOS are therefore taking further steps to increase collaborations with other patent offices to reduce duplication of work and speed up the patent application process.

Cable television system operators retransmitted terrestrial channels, including channels subject to mandatory retransmission pursuant to the Broadcasting Act, without providing any payment to the relevant terrestrial broadcasters in Korea. Therefore, on September 10 2009, KBS, MBC and SBS (the three terrestrial broadcasting stations) filed a preliminary injunction seeking the suspension and prevention of various infringements against a major operator, alleging that the retransmission infringed their copyright (the right of broadcasting from the rights of communications to the public) and neighbouring rights (simultaneous relay broadcasting rights).

Inventors of LCDs, USB, nanotechnology, pyrosequencing, furniture doors and train wheels were recognised at the EPO European Inventor Award 2013 held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The Supreme Court delivered a mixed ruling in the Myriad case in June, finding that some parts of the biotech company's patents on genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer can be patented while others cannot. The court unanimously ruled that isolated and purified DNA was a product of nature and therefore not eligible for patent protection under Section 101. But it said that synthetically created complementary DNA (cDNA) can be patented because it is not a naturally occurring substance.

Precedent set for copyright harmonisation Second WIPO treaty in 14 months Stevie Wonder makes last-minute appearance Groups representing blind people welcomed a new WIPO deal last month on accessing printed and audio material, claiming that it represents "a shift in power in global negotiations on intellectual property rights".

“[This decision] departs from the settled approach separating patent and antitrust law”