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The UK's decision to stop examining trade marks on relative grounds will force applicants to reconsider their policing and filing strategies in Europe. Jonathan Radcliffe and Eesheta Shah explain more

Key events year by year 1990 October: Biggest patent damages award

By designating as precedential a new decision on motions to amend last week, the USPTO is signalling its plans to roll out a proposed amendment pilot programme

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam

Clients are struggling to ban infringing goods from the internet, we experience difficulties making payments because our bank is under a Distributed Denial of Service attack and we frequently receive phishing mails and spam. Despite this, Pirate Bay and illegal streaming can be tempting (even to IP professionals).

US patent reform is not just a prosecution concern; Paul Hunter and Andrew Cheslock explain how to prepare for the changes imposed by the America Invents Act on litigation

Karl Renner and Dorothy Whelan of Fish & Richardson reflect on the state of post-grant patent practice in the US, the evolution of the inter partes review and new developments on the horizon

US patent litigation cases filed in May were the highest since the Alice decision. The most active filer was eDekka, the NPE that filed the most cases in 2014

In a guest post, USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison explains the TM5 ID List Project

The Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing from October 20 to 23 2014. The CPC Central Committee commonly holds seven plenary sessions during its five-year terms and each plenary session has a particular policy focus. Generally, a fourth plenary session focuses on CPC self-governance and self-development. A key outcome of the Plenum, as detailed in the resolution, is to come up with an instructive roadmap towards the Chinese Socialistic rule of law and promises of ambitious and sweeping judiciary reforms. The rule of law focus in this 4th Plenum is widely held as an unprecedented exercise in CPC's history.