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When a party receives a notice letter from a trade mark owner making an allegation of trade mark infringement, one of the first steps that the party should take following receipt of the notice letter (after conferring with counsel) is to review any insurance policy which it may have to ascertain whether insurance coverage is available. Too often, parties simply assume that their insurance policy does not provide protection for claims of trade mark infringement and miss out on the benefits that they are paying their insurance companies to provide.

In a recent decision, the Federal Supreme Court has confirmed some important principles that are relevant for both plaintiffs and defendants in trade mark non-use cancellation actions.

Under section 30 of the Singapore Patents Act, an application may proceed to grant based on the grant of or final results of the search and examination of a corresponding application. As defined in section 2 of the Singapore Patents Act, a corresponding application is, inter alia, an application that is subject to a priority claim based on an application which is also the basis for a priority claim for the Singapore application.

The European Patent Office is to clarify its rules for filing divisional applications

USPTO director David Kappos told a group of minority business owners and enterprise developers last week that recent data shows minorities are less likely to use the US IP system

Australia has halted inquiries into the controversial topics of gene patents and plain packaging for cigarettes because of the indecisive general election

The operator of the .il domain started taking Hebrew-language registrations in the second-level yesterday

Japan’s IP High Court has ordered Sony to pay ¥5.1 million ($60,000) to a former employee who invented a technology that was used in its PlayStation games consoles

The registry operator for .asia has sent a letter to ask Icann for permission to offer internationalised domain names in the second-level

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has sued 11 internet companies for infringing technology he claims was developed by his defunct patent research company