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Recently the Delhi High court decided on an important question of law concerning the maintainability of a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India against an order of the Controller of Patents either allowing or rejecting a pre-grant opposition under Section 25(1) of the Patents Act 1970. The case is UCB FARCHIM SA v Cipla Ltd and Ors and Colorcon Inc v Ideal Cures Pvt Ltd and Ors and Yeda Research and Development Co Ltd v Natco Pharma Ltd and Ors and Eli Lilly and Co v Ajanta Pharma Ltd Ors WP (C) Nos 8393, 12006 and 13295 of 2009 and WP (C) No 332 of 2010 along with WP (C) Nos 8388 and 8392 of 2009. The Court combined the six writ petitions presented before it for determination to clarify the position of law as regards the remedy available to a person against the unfavourable orders of the Controller in pre-grant proceedings.

In a recent decision (G2/08) published on February 19 2010 the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) ruled, inter alia, on the patentability of claims relating to the use of a known active ingredient in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of a known medical indication where the treatment differs merely with respect to the administration regimen (generally referred to as dosage regimen).

Managing IP sat down with lawyers from Finnegan, trade mark survey specialists and TTAB representatives to find out more about the latest rules for litigating trade mark disputes in the US

The Court of Justice’s nuanced ruling in a dispute over the use of trademarked keywords answered some questions and raised others. Susanne Mellqvist and Maria Lagergren of Valea analyse the decision

Indonesia’s government is trying to improve the country’s much-maligned IP system. Brett McGuire explains the challenges that it must overcome

The recent decisions issued by the Trade Mark Re-Examination Committee of the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (SOIT) in the three cases Limo v Voslauer Biolimo, subject to appeal pending with the 5th Civil Section of the Bucharest Tribunal, will have an important impact on the question of Limo trade mark distinctiveness for products in class 32, and may represent an important instrument to be taken into account by OHIM when deciding upon the pending oppositions filed by the owner of the Limo trade mark against Community and international trade mark applications containing this term.

Norway's new Trade Mark Act is expected to enter into force on July 1 2010. The new Act mainly represents a modernisation of the old Act and codification of existing case law, but a f ew important practical aspects of the new Act should be noted.

Editha R Hechanova of Hechanova Bugay & Vilchez analyses recent trade mark oppositions and appeals in the Philippines

Indran Shanmuganathan and Chew Chui Yiang of Shearn Delamore set out the rules protecting well-known trade marks in Malaysia

Binny Kalra and Saif Khan of Anand and Anand look at the impact of counterfeiting from an Indian perspective