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Under US trade mark law, the USPTO may invalidate a trade mark registration or refuse to register a trade mark application based on the premise that the underlying filing contains false statements. The risk of invoking this penalty typically arises when a trade mark owner signs the required declaration that the mark at issue is in use on or in connection with all of the goods and services listed in the application/registration when, in fact, the mark may be used on only some of the goods or for some of the services.

After the Thai public health ministry said it would issue a compulsory licence over a patent held by Merck, the Brazilian government has followed suit

Patent cases often involve evidence that is considered confidential by either the patent owner or the accused infringer. For example, the evidence used to prove or disprove the quantum of damages adequate to compensate for any infringement is often confidential to the party that produced such evidence in discovery. During discovery, such information is typically protected from disclosure by a Protective Order.

To coordinate their actions in addressing the issue of CATV piracy in the Philippines, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the government agency responsible for granting licences to install, operate and maintain radio/TV broadcast and CATV services, and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on June 16 2006. On April 2 2007, the Implementing Rules of the Agreement were promulgated through the Joint NTC-IP Philippines Memorandum Circular No 1 Series of 2007.

Turkish copyright law now almost complies with the WIPO internet treaties. Ugur Aktekin of Mehmet Gün & Partners outlines the changes the law has gone through

Turkey, a member of the EPO, is now eyeing membership of the European Union and is updating its IP laws to bring them in line with EU legislation. Emma Barraclough spoke to Yusuf Balci, chairman of the Turkish Patent Institute, about the Institute's work, and how to protect your IP rights in Turkey

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.

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

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.

The German Federal Patent Court recently upheld the first instance decision of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) judging the word marks Quellgold and Goldquell to be confusingly similar in the sense of paragraph 9 section 1 No 2 of the German Trade Mark Act.