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  • Sequenom petitioning the Federal Circuit for a rehearing of the Ariosa decision, the Eastern District of Texas taking 44% of US patent cases so far this year, Ashley Madison sending out copyright takedown notices to combat its leak, the latest in the Redskins trade mark case, and a trial being set in Led Zeppelin’s copyright dispute were in the IP headlines this week
  • The PTAB has declined to institute inter partes reviews brought against two of Acorda Therapeutic's patents covering its multiple-sclerosis drug, finding that the posters cited in evidence did not qualify as prior art
  • As anticipated in previous articles, the new Civil and Commercial Argentine Code came into effect on August 1 2015, and consequently both the former Civil and Commercial codes were abrogated. Among the regulations that are of interest in our area, we can mention the following:
  • The opening of Myanmar’s economy presents many opportunities for international brands. Tran Manh Hung and Luc Tung Phong explain how companies can use franchising agreements to enter the market
  • In this case, the plaintiff owned the combined word and design trade marks B MEN Thierry Mugler and ALIEN ESSENCE ABSOLUE Thierry Mugler. The defendant owned the younger word and design trade mark Thierry Mugler. Both lower courts decided there was infringement of the prior trade marks.
  • The new president of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) – Luiz Otávio Pimentel – took office on August 11 2015 in a formal ceremony in the city of Rio de Janeiro. During his speech, the new president clearly and expressly recognised that the existing backlog of work in the patents and trade marks sectors is a serious and damaging problem: it hampers greater local investments, especially foreign ones, and jeopardizes the state policy on the promotion of local innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • India and Brazil have a rich bio-diversity. In an attempt to conserve the rich biological diversity and to ensure the sustainable use of the biological resources with adequate benefit sharing arising out of the exploitation of the biological resources, both countries enacted national laws following the UN Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992.
  • This month, Utynam rounds up some of the IP-related stories in the media during July and August, and takes a trip to see some patent attorneys perform
  • A warning letter is a tool normally first used by an IP owner to enforce its IP rights before a complaint is filed. However, some recent development in China probably would increase an IP owner's caution of sending out a warning letter.
  • The Commercial Court of Jakarta has refused a trade mark cancellation lawsuit (number 15/Pdt/Sus-Merek/2015/ PN.Niaga.Jkt.Pst) filed by French designer Pierre Cardin against Alexander Satryo Wibowo.