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Rosalía Bautista of Becerril Coca & Becerril SC discusses the new requirement for including biological and physical data when filing patent applications

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is intended to provide trade mark owners with a relatively quick and inexpensive way to resolve a dispute regarding a third party's registration and use of a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark in which the owner has rights. The UDRP provides a single mechanism for resolving the domain dispute and offers the potential for compelling the transfer of the domain name at issue to the trade mark owner. Since the UDRP is intentionally designed to be an expedited process without the costs associated with litigation, trade mark owners are often eager to use the UDRP as a means to get a domain name registration out of the hands of a perceived cyber-squatter.

The High Court reviewed the meaning of an "earlier trade mark" in coming to its recent appeal decision in an opposition case.

The Russian Patent Office recently refused registration of the trade mark Valenti Men's Collection on application No 2006736337 in respect of goods of class 25 and services of class 35.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPPhil) has just issued a call for comments from the copyright stakeholders for submission on or before October 22 2010, regarding proposed House Bill 47 which seeks to amend the IP Code or Republic Act 8293. The bill centres on copyright, and its salient points are as follows.

Under the Japanese Patent Act, an invention shall not be granted a patent if a person ordinarily skilled in the art of the invention would have been able to easily conceive of the invention based on the prior art (the requirement for "inventive step").

Peter Ollier talks to Weerawit Weeraworawit about looking at intellectual property as a human right and the impact of the TRIPs Agreement on the Asia-Pacific region

Varicom Communications, an Israel company, filed a patent application (IL 135684) in Israel. Over the course of the year, the idea was developed somewhat, and a PCT application claiming priority from the Israel application but with added material, was filed.

The total number of patent filings in China by foreign parties has exceeded 1 million. The breakdown for inventions, utility model and design patents is roughly about 865,000, 16,000 and 121,000 respectively. The three top filing countries are Japan, the US and Germany. The number of filings has increased considerably in recent years. In 2005, it was only 500,000. Between January and August this year, China saw a year-on-year increase of 12.9%.

The right to one's own name is not often subject to Supreme Court decisions. However, recently the Austrian Supreme Court had to decide on two different cases regarding the assignment of rights to the own name and the interpretation of licence agreements concerning those rights.