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Generics and innovators explain the possible ramifications of the European Commission’s investigation into Teva’s divisional filing practices for Copaxone

Trade mark attorneys have welcomed OHIM’s statement on how it will treat trade mark class headings following this week’s IP Translator decision from the Court of Justice of the EU

The Bardehle Pagenberg partner explains how the firm has evolved to the point of handling about a third of Unified Patent Court cases and enjoying notable success in the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

Winston Taylor is expected to launch in May 2026 with more than 1,400 lawyers across the US, UK, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East

Sources from the generics industry claim long delays for opposition hearings and abuse of the divisional system has led to business uncertainty

Italian State Secretary for European Affairs Sandro Gozi confirmed that Italy will join the Unitary Patent during a public session of the EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels

Last month Utynam attended Managing IP’s third annual EU Patent Reform Forum, held in Munich and Paris, and also visited the MARQUES conference in Vienna. Here are a few impressions

A Beijing court has awarded seven Chinese authors, including popular blogger Han Han, damages against search engine Baidu for copyright infringement. The court held that Baidu's Wenku literature searching service illegally published copies of the plaintiffs' works. The seven authors received damages totalling Rmb145,000 ($22,937) from Haidian District People's Court, which was far lower than the amount they requested. The court also denied their requests that the service be shut down and for a public apology. Han, who sued after three of his books appeared on Wenku, had asked for Rmb760,000 and closure of the online library. He was awarded just over Rmb80,000, with the court saying that the evidence of the severity of infringement was insufficient.

For copyright owners, news from Hank Barry, Napster´ s CEO, that there are more than 200 million multimedia PCs worldwide with the capacity to copy an MP3 file, and that Napster´ s software has been downloaded and installed 57 million times, will make grim reading. Except that is for copyright owners in France. French authorities are planning to put levies on the sales of computers and digital recording devices as a means of compensating musicians and film-makers against pirate copying. The taxes on recordable CDs, DVDs and mini-discs went into effect on January 22. A 420-minute recordable DVD faces a Ffr57.7 ($9) levy, most of which will go directly to the artists and producers.