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The Copyright Amendment Act, 2012, which came into force on June 21 2012, introduced major changes in the Indian Copyright Law. Various production houses and music labels have challenged the constitutional validity of these amendments before the Delhi High Court, by different petitions.

On April 3 2013, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) issued Office Order No 13-054 series of 2013 amending Section 20 of Office Order No 139 s 2012 relating to the Philippines regulations implementing the Madrid Protocol with regard to the submission of the Declaration of Actual Use (DAU).

On April 1 2013, the Egyptian Patent Office started operating as an International Search Authority (ISA) and as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA). The PCT Assembly appointed the Egyptian Office as an ISA and IPEA at the Assembly of the PCT Union session in September of 2009.

The calculation of damages arising from patent infringement has changed considerably with the recent amendment to the Patent Law. The major changes are:

Plaintiff Guccio Gucci SPA, an Italian company, is one of the largest and most reputable manufacturers of clothing and luxury items. In China, it registered two GG device trade marks, which have gained a high reputation through years of use. In 2006, Gucci found that women's sandals manufactured by defendant Jiangsu Senda Group Corp Ltd were being sold. A large number of GG device patterns were used on the exterior lining cloth of the inner side of these sandals. Gucci sued Senda for trade mark infringement, demanding that the defendant cease infringement and pay damages.

With the arrival of over 1,400 new generic Top Level Domain names (gTLDs), such as .energy and .legal, a system had to be developed to provide trade mark owners worldwide with the opportunity to register their trade mark under one or more new gTLDs as a domain name prior to the general public (during a so-called sunrise period). This system should indeed prevent cybersquatting, whereby a domain name is registered and/or used in bad faith to profit from a trade mark owner. To this end, ICANN appointed Deloitte and IBM who created the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), which opened on March 26 2013.

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.