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It seems the Russian courts value intellectual property much higher than one might think.

One of the biggest changes in Australian patent and trade mark law, created and shepherded by the Australian Patent Office, has now taken effect.

At every INTA?Annual Meeting, Managing IP?staff ask attendees a single question every day. Here are the responses from two of them

In Argentina, under Article 35 of Law 24,481, patents are granted for a non-extendable term of 20 years counted from the application filing date.

The Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently rendered a retrial judgment No (2012)-Minshenzi-1544, giving direction on the trials of complicated IP cases and providing guidance on the judicial policy.

In a recent decision of the Austrian Supreme IP Tribunal, an Austrian audit company named Confida requested the cancellation of three younger trade marks, all including the word Confida and registered for services including auditing services and financial services in class 36. The cancellation action was based on the company name, as the company was registered in 1978 in the Austrian company register and the attacked marks were only registered in the 1990s and later. Likelihood of confusion between the opposing signs was not under dispute.

Recently, the ECJ had to decide on a preliminary ruling concerning the interpretation of the term "genuine use" where a trade mark is only used as an element of a combination mark and in conjunction with another trade mark, and the combination of the two marks is also registered as a trade mark.

Even a quick look at the figure indicates that damage awards in Japanese patent infringement litigations could multiply because of a recent IP High Court decision.

Beginning March 1 2012, copyright owners would have the opportunity to notify the Controller of Copyright of their copyrighted works. Pursuant to the newly added section 26A of the Copyright Act 1987, a copyright owner in any copyrightable work, an assignee, licensee or person having been granted interest in the copyright or the author of the work himself or the author's representative who elects to notify the Controller under this "voluntary notification" scheme are required to provide the name, address and nationality of the copyright owner; a statutory declaration as to the position of the applicant for copyright notification; the category of the work; the title of the work; the name of the author and if the author is dead; the date of the author's death (if known); the date and place of the first publication (in the case of a published work) and any other information as the Minister may determine.

The Mexican Constitution was amended on June 6 2011, with the intention of obliging every authority in the country to respect human rights and international treaties. These amendments also included a need to reform the procedural law regulating the Amparo trial, through which constitutional challenges are brought.