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A proposed merger between top-rated New York IP boutique Pennie & Edmonds and general firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue has been scuppered after a partnership vote.

Denominations of origin recognized by an international treaty must be respected in Colombia without the local authorities having to declare them denominations of origin once again.

The landmark first domain name dispute to be put through the recently-launched formal resolution process in Singapore has been settled in favour of the registrant-respondent with entertainment giant Viacom International failing in its attempt to claim the domain name mtv.com.sg.

The International Nice Classification allows all entities which are part of the Nice Convention to unify under one criteria the classification of goods and services to be protected with a trade mark.

Generic companies around the world are enjoying extended rights to test drugs pre-patent expiry

Ingrid Hering, London

MIP hosted a reception at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC on May 21 during the INTA Conference. Over 250 guests attended the party, including award winners from the leading firms in the World IP Survey and Emerging Markets Survey. Pictures of some of the award winners, and MIP staff, are shown.

The Korean government has traditionally held the rights to inventions in national and public universities. But new technology transfer legislation will change that. Researchers will now have an incentive to commercialize their inventions, writes Man-Gi Paik

There is an anomaly in the law of exhaustion of rights between national trade marks governed by the Trade Marks Directive and Community Trade Marks (CTMs) governed by the Trade Marks Regulation. It is well known that article 7(1) of the Directive provides for community exhaustion and that pursuant to the EEA Agreement, this rule has been expanded to give rise to EEA exhaustion. Therefore, if goods are put on the market with the consent of the trade mark owner in Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or any of the EU member states, then the exclusive rights given by the national trade marks are exhausted.

In most countries, the most expensive part of prosecuting a patent application is the cost of search and examination. Singapore took a positive approach by allowing an applicant to rely on search and examination results for a corresponding application in lieu of search and examination of the Singapore application. No official fees are imposed on an applicant who chooses to do so. For this purpose, corresponding applications from Australia, Canada, the EPO, UK, US and PCT (not designating Singapore) may be used. A corresponding application must relate to substantially the same invention and be connected to the Singapore application by a priority claim, for example, a common priority claim.