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A new trend in US copyright cases could save litigants thousands of dollars in discovery costs. Simon Frankel, Shannon Nestor and John Freed explain how

From December 18 2009 the Patents Act, Section 3, third subsection 5, states that the exclusive right obtained by a patent does not include "trials, experiments and similar of a patented medicine that are required to obtain a marketing authorisation for a medicine in a state that is a contracting party to the agreement of 15 April 1994 on the establishment of the World Trade Organisation".

Last November the European Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution to introduce the compulsory labelling of the mark "Made In" to indicate the origin of goods imported into the European Union.

In 2001, Australia introduced a new form of patent called the innovation patent system. Patents granted under this system have a term of eight years. Significantly, the innovation patent system allows for the grant of patents that would be considered obvious in the US or Europe. Having no obviousness test allows patent holders to exploit what would otherwise be considered a very weak patent.

Mae Lin Ng and Pui Keng Lim of Advanz Fidelis look at possible amendments to the Trade Marks Act and pick out significant court cases of the last year

When two parties own and use arguably similar marks, they are often able to address their respective concerns regarding the other's use and resolve any differences between them amicably by entering into what is commonly referred to as a Co-Existence Agreement. A Co-Existence Agreement typically operates to either provide consent from a senior user of a mark to a junior user's use of a similar mark and/or to resolve a dispute regarding competing uses of a mark when an adversarial proceeding is pending.

IP owners and advisers discuss the challenges they face in Malaysia with Kamel Mohamad, head of the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia

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.

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