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Managing IP marks its 25th anniversary this year. Here are some of the landmarks in our development, from the launch of the magazine in 1990 to the world of webinars, Twitter and our Chinese-language website

On December 18 2014 the new Industrial Property Law, Number 23-13, which amends the existing act, Number 17/97, came into force in Morocco. There is a lot of substance in the new law; below is a summary of the most noteworthy changes.

In the commercial and business fields, it is common to use expressions such as corporate name, trade name and designation almost indistinctively. However, these expressions must be clearly specified and distinguished.

In its decision "Farbversorgungssystem" (X ZR 130/10) the Federal Supreme Court discussed the requirements for applying a technical solution generally known to the person skilled in the art but not disclosed in conjunction with the specific application in question to a prior art teaching in the assessment of inventive step.

A number of Greek collecting societies managing copyrights and related rights filed preliminary injunction actions against internet service providers (ISPs) in 2014 before the Civil Court of Athens. These requested the defendants to take the appropriate technological or other measures, the implementation of which will make it unfeasible – impossible for their subscribers – to visit specific named websites, the content of which infringes the creators' copyrights.

Patent litigation in India is on the increase and there is good news for pharmaceutical patentees. In three different cases, with three different factual scenarios, both Indian and foreign pharmaceutical patentees managed to score victories against generics and the Indian government.

At the beginning of this year, Indonesia has been coloured by an issue covered by various Indonesian media regarding a new conflict over the domain name HYPERLINK "http://www.bmw.id" \h www.bmw.id. The conflict is between an Indonesian national, Benny Muliawan, and the well-known automotive company, Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).

Taiwan’s IP Police was founded in 2003 and has three companies with 220 officers in total, handling about 2,000 cases a year. Peter Leung spoke to the captain of the Taipei company, Wei-Hsu Chen

The High Court has recently clarified the operation of the extension of time provisions insofar as they relate to lodgement of a request for an extension of patent term for a pharmaceutical patent.

On January 20 , the General Court issued a decision in respect of a Community design registration for a heat exchanger. This heat exchanger to which the contested design was applied was presented as a part of a complex product, namely a household boiler. A direct competitor of the applicant filed a claim with OHIM to declare the design invalid, on the ground that the design as registered did not remain visible after its installation in the boiler, and therefore did not constitute a valid design in the sense of the Regulation.