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A High Court decision in July this year ruled that a cafe chain's use of the name Nutello for a coffee beverage violated the Nutella trade mark.

The corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints filed a trade mark application for exactly that, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but was rejected by the Patent Office.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) will launch the first Philippine Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Summit during the IPR week from October 24-28 2011. The summit, which will be attended by heads and key enforcement officers of the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR), brand owners, practitioners and officers relevant government agencies, aims to highlight the convergence of the efforts of both the government and the private sector to combat counterfeiting and piracy, and increase public awareness of the importance of IP rights and the deleterious effects of counterfeiting.

The Norwegian Court of Appeal has decided that Trumf's Oliver chair infringes Stokke's copyright to the Tripp Trapp chair, and that use of the slogan "This great children's chair will grow with the child" infringes Stokke's use of established rights to the slogan "The chair that grows with the child".

The Trade Marks (International Treaties and Enforcement) Amendment Act 2011 was passed in September 2011. The Act allows New Zealand to join the Madrid Protocol.

Mr Justice Kitchin and Lord Justice Jacob were clear that HGS’s patent for the Neutrokine-a protein was invalid for lacking industrial application. But five Supreme Court judges today disagreed. Why?

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.

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".

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.

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.