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In Romania, during the communist regime, all inventions considered of interest for the economy had to be assigned by their inventors to the state, through its institutions (such as ministries) or companies which were all entirely owned by the state. However, all inventions considered of interest that were not assigned by their inventors in favor of the state, were expropriated for the benefit of the latter. As a consequence of the legal or voluntary assignment, an author/inventor certificate was granted to the inventors who were also entitled to a consideration based on the advantages brought by the effective application of the inventions. In practice, in many cases, even if the law provided this consideration, it was not paid to the inventors.

Over the last four years there has been a clarification of the Polish Patent Office's (PPO) practice in the field of patent prosecution. The application of a divide-and-conquer approach to subject matter of patent applications have resulted in narrow criteria of patentability in general being established.

Malaysia’s Industrial Designs Act came into force 10 years ago. Patrick Mirandah and Suriyia Sadanathan of Patrick Mirandah Co looks at the law’s progress

Chew Kherk Ying and Sonia Ong of Wong & Partners assess important developments in licensing, R&D, tech transfer and IP commercialisation

Under Section 39 of the Singapore Patents Act, where a patent has ceased to have effect because of a failure to pay any renewal fee an application for the restoration of the patent may be made. Under Rule 53(1), this application must be made within 30 months from the date on which the patent ceased to have effect, with an accompanying statutory declaration or affidavit setting out the grounds for the application and evidence in its support.

Following a trend in several major patent offices around the world with respect to the protection of business method-related patents, the Mexican Patent Office is shifting more decisively towards summarily rejecting applications seeking to protect such inventions.

After almost a year's delay, the government's long anticipated review of Indonesia's IP legislation is back on the agenda.

Under the Indian Patent Act a patent is available on an invention that is new, useful and is not obvious to the person skilled in the art. The invention, a product or a process, must satisfy the test of constituting an inventive step, which means the improvement must produce a new result or a new or better article. In the case Strix Limited vs Maharaja Appliances Limited, which recently came up before the Delhi High Court, the technology in use was claimed to be a part of the public domain.

The Australian Federal Court in Vawdrey Australia Pty Ltd v Krueger Transport Equipment Pty Ltd [2009] FCAFC 156 has extended the bounds of copyright to cover the more functional three-dimensional aspects of a two-dimensional drawing.

Trade marks containing the term "Eco" are not accepted by the Greek Trade Mark Office, unless permission to use the term has been awarded to the applicant under EC Regulation 880/1992 on the Community eco-label award scheme or under to an award system applicable in an EU member state.