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The UK's Court of Appeal has sent three questions to the European Court of Justice in a dispute over alleged dilution of the Intel trade mark

The USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences should rely on evidence submitted by parties rather than its own expertise in judging who is the rightful owner of a patent

The manager of a shopping complex in Sarawak has been charged with allowing a tenant to sell pirated CDs in what is believed to be the first criminal landlord liability case in Malaysia

In a case between Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) and Philips, the Supreme Administrative Court of Taiwan made a final ruling on April 4 2007. The Court held that a patent pool that included patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden which were licensed in a package to Taiwan's CD-R manufacturers was not a concerted action. It upheld the ruling of the Taipei High Administrative Court to revoke the decision of the FTC and said that the term "concerted action" used in Article 14 of the Fair Trade Act refers to the action of enterprises with a competitive relationship. Such competitive relationship will be deemed to exist where the goods or services provided by the enterprises are substitutable by each other's goods or services. Since the CD-R manufacturers must use the orange book-compliant techniques covered by the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden in combination in order to produce CD-Rs, and since CD-Rs cannot be produced using any one of the patents alone, the Court held that the patents owned by Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden are complementary to each other rather than substitutable for each other. As such, there is no competitive relationship among them.

US trade negotiators will be forced to limit the IP demands they make of their trading partners under a new policy announced by American politicians on May 10

The UK Court of Appeal has made it clear that if a court awards damages in a patent infringement case, the order cannot be overturned if the patent is later found invalid by the EPO

Since OHIM opened, it has received more than half a million applications for Community trade marks. Thousands have been rejected, and thousands more opposed prompting frustrated would-be trade mark owners to go to the European courts. How can they maximize their chances of winning? Emma Barraclough finds out

A partially valid patent refers to a situation where some claims in a granted patent are found valid while other (typically broader) claims are found invalid, for example, during infringement proceedings.

With regard to pending marketing authorization applications, the register of the National Agency for Medicines (NAM) has so far disclosed only the filing date, the number of the applicants and applications and the active ingredient to a third party. In accordance with a recent decision from the Supreme Administrative Court, a third party is now also entitled to obtain, upon request, information on the identity of the applicant and the type of the application before the marketing authorization is granted.

The last decade has seen many bright rays of industrial and intellectual developments within Indian industry. The Sensex has been soaring to record levels leading to a great transformation of India's financial scenario. Therefore it is imperative that one of the fastest growing economies in Asia also feels the necessity to protect its precious IP leading to a doubling of the number of patent and copyright applications in the past two years.