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Under the Japanese Patent Act, registration is required for an exclusive licensee to be able to assert its exclusivity directly against any third party , as opposed to requesting the licensor to do so. Specifically, a licensee who enters into an exclusive licence agreement with a patentee without registering such exclusive licence with the Japan Patent Office has no right to directly demand an infringer of the licensed patent to cease its infringement even within the field in which the licensee shall have the exclusivity under the licence agreement. Rather, a licensee needs to register certain information in the patent registry maintained in the Patent Office in order to obtain such right and become a true exclusive licensee. Under the current registration system, the exclusive licensee’s name and the scope of the licence shall be registered and such information shall be made available to the public; however, this registration system has been unpopular because licensees are generally reluctant to disclose information which may be considered business secrets.

Sanjay Kumar and Arpita Sawhney of Remfry & Sagar consider the conflicting issues of patent protection and freedom of transit

During June this year, a delegation from Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, VeriSign and Symantec met with the Syrian president, Bashar Al Asad, as well as several ministers and business people. They also visited local universities. The purpose of the visit, according to the Wall Street Journal, was to woo Syria away from its strategic alliance with Iran by showcasing the benefits of US technology that would be available to Syria if US sanctions against it were lifted.

Anuradha Salhotra of Lall Lahiri & Salhotra discusses copyright and domain name issues for IT, software and internet businesses

Dr Malathi Lakshmikumaran and Badri Narayanan of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S) consider the changing face of patent law

Prietika Siingh and Dheeraj Seth of Inttl Advocare discuss the registrability of well-known trade marks

Growing investment in India, and patent reform, have put more attention on the country’s courts. In a roundtable discussion held in Delhi in August, James Nurton asked litigation specialists how judges are responding, whether reforms are needed and what strategies parties should adopt for success

AMexican company Hacienda de los Camichines SA failed to obtain a registration for Purple Label in Russia in respect of goods in class 33 (alcoholic beverages).

Alendronate is marketed by Merck as Fosomax, which has annual worldwide sales of over $1 billion.

Abhai Pandey and Swati Setia of LEXORBIS IP Practice provide an overview of recent IP developments