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The new Patent Marking Measures came into operation on May 1 2012.

An arbitration panel has transferred the domain name remarkable.eu back to the Belgian company Remarkable Europe.

In Austria there is a producer of sweet products famous for its foamy sweets in the shape of a bomb. The outer form of those sweets was denied trade mark protection back in 1976 since their bomb form is technically the best way to produce such sweets out of sweet foam. In 1969 the producer also applied for trade marks for a transparent packaging with specially designed compartments for the individual foamy sweets, one without such sweets and one filled with them, claiming trade mark protection for the specific three-dimensional form. This so-called six pack consists of two rows of three compartments each. The marks were so registered. The producer has since sold five million of such packages per year and has a market share for that type of sweet of 80%.

Litigious patent holders are exploiting the Australian innovation patent system to leverage the full benefits of the innovation patent, thereby gaining a significant advantage during litigation.

Trade marks play an essential role in domain names, and the owners of trade mark rights have been the main promoters of the regulatory process of domain names.

New regulations on labelling and advertising of foods were recently introduced as part of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, which was implemented on March 1 2012. They aim to create a specific standard for informing consumers about the ingredients in foodstuffs.

Managing IP's 10th-anniversary list of the most influential people in IP sees Google's Larry Page at number one. Do you agree?

Long-time supervisory patent examiner Robin Evans will manage the USPTO's first satellite patent office: the Elijah J McCoy office in Detroit, Michigan, which opened on July 13. The 25 examiners and 11 administrative law judges who started July 16, however, will be trained remotely by supervisors in Alexandria and will report to commissioner for patents Peggy Focarino and director David Kappos. The office is expected to spur local job growth and is the first step in a larger expansion of the Office. Managing IP's September issue will report from the new Detroit office.

US online companies Google and Amazon led the way in applications for new gTLDs last month, as the list of 1,930 applications was published by Icann. Unveiling the list in London, Icann president and CEO Rod Beckstrom described it as "an historic day" adding: "The internet is about to change forever. A powerful change is coming."

A Northern District of California jury has found Oracle failed to prove whether Google wilfully infringed patents RE38,104 and 6,061,520. Earlier, a jury found Google infringed Oracle's copyrighted application programming interface but could not agree on whether it constituted fair use. Google has moved for a mistrial.