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Apple recently requested a preliminary injunction on termination of infringing acts regarding several patents in and outside the Netherlands. In particular, Apple sued for infringement on the basis of the Galaxy Tab, the Galaxy Tab 10.1v and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung. Similar claims have been put forward regarding smartphones.

Parallel import is a prevalent business model in the new age economy. However, the laws governing parallel imports are still in infancy and require clarification in many jurisdictions, including Malaysia.

The Mexican Law of Industrial Property establishes in section IV of article 90, an absolute ground for refusal based on the descriptiveness of the mark. This prohibits registration of descriptive names, figures and three-dimensional forms. However, it also provides that all the elements of the mark should be "considered as a whole".

In the electronics and software fields, the applications that result in the most valuable patents are typically the ones filed early, before the market for the protected products grows. Patent visualisation is an inventing strategy aimed at systematically developing ideas from a very early stage to optimise the chances of filing patent applications at the critical time before market growth. Central to patent visualisation are the processes of brainstorming, in which an early-stage idea is developed through a series of questions, and theme determination, in which a technical area of focus is selected and tested to determine its potential to yield early inventions with respect to market growth. Patent visualisation is an opportunity for IP professionals to take on new roles and have a greater impact on the development of technology and the success of their companies.

There is feverish activity at the Italian PTO, mostly for the concurrence of two new procedures, one referring to trade marks and the other to patents, which are being launched at the moment.

In May 2010, then deputy commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Noah Shalev Shlomovits ruled that the cigarette brand Eva, produced by Bulgarian manufacturer Aktsionerno Droujestvo Bulgartabac is not confusingly similar to the Eve brand of cigarettes produced by Philip Morris, allowing Eva to be registered as a trade mark.

Essentially, filing nullification of a trade mark registration can be performed by the registered owner of the mark or on the initiative of the Directorate General. However, a third party may also be able to file for the nullification of a trade mark in the form of a lawsuit filed at the Commercial Court. Under the provision of Indonesian Trademark Law that registered mark can be removed if it has not been used for three consecutive years in the trade, from the date of registration or of the last use, except if there are proper reasons for non-use that are acceptable.

Obtaining interim injunctions in patent infringement suits in India is considered a rather difficult feat. While this belief may be questionable anyway, in what may be a swooping contradiction to it, the Delhi High Court on September 16 2011 passed an ex parte injunction order in a patent infringement suit in favour of Vifor, a pharmaceutical company.

In a recent trade mark cancellation action procedure, the Trademarks Administrative Commission considered whether there is a likelihood of confusion between the following national trade mark in class 32

In two cases between Centrotherm and OHIM, the General Court had to assess revocation of a Community trade mark (CTM) based on lack of genuine use.