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Globalisation of corporate activities has enabled companies of different nationalities to conclude multinational patent transfer agreements. In this case, a Japanese company and a Korean company agreed to the jurisdiction of the Seoul Central District Court in a multinational patent transfer agreement. The Korean court affirmed the jurisdiction, however the Japanese court denied the jurisdiction regarding the transfer of the Japanese patents at the execution stage. If the jurisdiction agreed by the parties becomes void at a later execution stage in Japan, how should foreign companies decide jurisdiction clauses in multinational patent transfer agreement against Japanese companies?

The question of whether a trade mark licensee should be recorded as a registered user (RU) has often been posed to trade mark practitioners where there are cost versus benefit considerations. The costs are filing fees, which are compounded by the need to make fresh applications whenever the trade marks concerned are renewed. In the Malaysian context, it has always been thought that two main benefits arise from such recordals. The first would be that the use by the RU would be deemed as use by the registered owner. The second is the right of the RU to sue for trade mark infringement, if certain conditions are met.

Copyright explained, by sock puppets. Plus a little cocktail mixing

Netherlands comes ahead of a case that is awaiting a decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO (G 2/12): are plants that are obtained as a result of an "essentially biological process" patentable subject matter?

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?

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.

The third annual Europe Women in Business Law Awards took place last month, along with the second event in America. Among the winners were some of the stars of IP on both sides of the Atlantic

In April this year, the Beijing High Court published Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases of 2012, one of which involved the responsibility of a group-purchase website for trade mark infringement. In this case, our firm represents the plaintiff, who is the owner of the mark Le Coq Sportif and device registered for shoes etc in China. The Supreme Court later included the case in the Top 50 Intellectual Property Cases of 2012 .

The owner of the mark Buckfast registered in 1981 for goods and services related to beekeeping sued for infringement a beekeeper who had published ads offering to sell hives with "Buckfast" bees. At trial and on appeal, the beekeeper lost.

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.