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Patent litigation teams at firms like DLA Piper and K&L Gates are benefiting from the recent bankruptcy of Dewey & LeBoeuf, while former Dewey partners are launching new boutiques such as Bunsow & DeMory

Managing IP is sponsoring a seminar on new gTLDs, to be held in Brussels on June 22, immediately before the Icann meeting in Prague

China’s Supreme People’s Court has agreed to hear American Semiconductor’s (AMSC) software infringement claim against Chinese company Sinovel

Last week member countries of WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) met in Geneva to discuss five key issues. Managing IP explains what progress they made

Texas firm Jackson Walker announced yesterday that it will open a Texarkana office to be led by David Folsom, former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

At the INTA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, a record number of attendees heard sea stories, arguments and polar bear paradigms. Managing IP reports

The first 18 months of the Patents County Court in London under its new rules demonstrate some fairly clear lessons on transferring cases. Simon Bennett and Rachel Cook survey the evidence

US trade mark law offers parties the ability to oppose the registration of a mark that is considered to be primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive. That is, a mark that consists of a term that has a geographic significance but is used in connection with products that do not originate from that location. This right is embedded in US law because any mark which is likely to cause consumers to believe that the goods sold under the mark originate from a geographic place when they do not, in fact, originate there, is potentially misleading. Similarly, a party that actually offers products from the geographic location identified may be damaged if a competitor is allowed to use and register that location as a mark for products originating elsewhere.

In the eyes of the law, a company is a separate legal entity from its members and directors. The acts of a company, including any wrongful acts are attributable to, and liability therefore rests with, the company as a separate entity and not with its members or directors. This principle from the Salomon case, that there is a "corporate veil" between a company itself and its members or directors, is a well-entrenched principle of company law and the Malaysian courts are bound to abide by it unless there are cogent reasons to depart from it.

French industry organisation Comité Colbert has teamed up with Cartier, Chanel, Christian Dior, Lacoste, Longchamp, Van Cleef & Arpels and Louis Vuitton to launch an anti-counterfeiting campaign targeting tourists in search of discount French designer brands