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William Yang and Richard Yong Wang of Panawell & Partners look at what strategies defendants can use during patent litigation in China

Jack Chang explains what the Quality Brands Protection Committee (QBPC) has done to fight fakes and improve IP enforcement in China and outlines the challenges ahead

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam – who received the world’s first recorded patent in 1449

The James Bond series of movies have enjoyed worldwide recognition all over the world for many years. However, the 007 trade marks were not given famous mark status in Taiwan when they were used to oppose registration of a local trade mark comprising the same wording 007 and a similar pistol device in respect of timepieces in the year 2000. The Administrative Court then had the following findings:

With a significantly higher level of regulation over trade mark licences introduced by the 2007 trade mark law, we might have expected to see an increase in the number of licence recordals, but that is not apparent from the number of licences published in the official journal.

Mexican intellectual property law protects producers, manufacturers, and service providers of all types from having the distinctive features of their products copied, exploited or reproduced without the proper authorisation.

The Malaysian Patents Act 1983 requires that an invention, to be patentable, should be new, involving an inventive step and industrially applicable. Section 13 (1) (b) of the Act lists non-patentable inventions and it excludes the patentability of plant or animal varieties or essentially biological products for the production of plants or animals, other than man-made living microorganisms, micro-biological processes and the products of such microorganism processes.

Four months after they were introduced, the impact of the recent rules on the protection of Made In Italy is encouraging.

The Supreme Court has set important precedents on business method patents in Korea by hearing two cases.

Confidential information relating can take the form of any business formula, process, R&D capabilities, client-related or operational information that ought to be protected as a trade secret. Any breach in handling such confidential information violates the IP rights of the concerned party and has been pursued through the courts on many occasions. The Delhi High Court has deliberated on the misuse of confidential information relating to industrial drawings and the grant of permanent injunction to restrain those drawings in case of Action Construction Equipment v Gulati Industrial Fabric P Ltd IA no 10073/2006 IN CS(OS) no 1740/2006.