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On April 1 2009, the High Court of Kuala Lumpur, in delivering the judgment in the case of Illinois Tool Works, Inc v Pendaftar Cap Dagangan, Malaysia [2009] 1 LNS 507 (Illinois), provided proper guidelines for the Registrar in issuing acceptance or objections when examining a trade mark.

Buying a brand from a company that is in financial trouble can be risky. But for purchasers who carry out proper due diligence, it can also be profitable. Sarah Anne Keefe explains how to do it in the US

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The Swedish government, which took over the rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1, says it will drive progress towards a Community patent and a unified patent litigation system. Susanne Ås Sivborg, head of Sweden's IP Office, spoke to Emma Barraclough about the country’s IP ambitions

It is a regular and strict practice of the Turkish Patent Institute to examine a trade mark application on both relative and absolute grounds within six to eight months of its filing date. Accordingly, the Institute rejects ex officio an application where the mark applied for is identical or very similar to a prior registration or application for identical or similar goods or services.

The patenting of biotechnology raises both ethical and practical concerns. Dirk Bühler and Martin Huenges of Maiwald analyse recent cases to consider how the EPO is handling the issues

The dilution doctrine, which aims to prohibit the blurring or tarnishing of the image of well-known trade marks through unauthorised appropriation by others, was incorporated in May 2003 into the Taiwan Trademark Act. Since then, a person shall be held liable for trade mark infringement if they knowingly use, without consent, a trade mark identical with or similar to another's well-known registered trade mark or the word(s) in that trade mark as their company name, trade name, domain name or as an indication of origin of goods or services, thereby diluting the well-known trade mark.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently approved the binding corporate rules (BCRs) of the Accenture and Atmel groups of companies, giving them freedom to transfer personal data from the UK to other entities within their own corporate groups which operate outside the EEA.

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

In a recently published appeal before the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (Netherlands Patent Office Journal 2009, Number 20, pages 75-78), the court considered the implications of an exclusive distribution agreement on know-how protection.