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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) issued Office Order 15-067 series of 2015 which took effect on May 7 2015, allowing parties to have their cases mediated by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This option is advantageous for international parties or those desiring to settle their disputes involving multiple jurisdictions, and the mediation meetings can be done in locations other than the Philippines. Referral to mediation is mandatory for IPOPHL cases such as:

The law with regard to famous trade marks is unequivocal: a trade mark may be recognised as famous if it became widely known as a result of intensive use on the date of filing the application among relevant consumers in respect of the goods of the applicant. There are special rules that regulate the procedure for recognising the trade mark as famous.

On January 22 2015, the Notification of the Alcoholic Beverages Control, Re: Rules, Procedures, and Conditions for Labels of Alcoholic Beverages was published in the Royal Thai Government Gazette. It sets out controversial labelling and message restrictions for alcoholic beverages that could result in major losses for the alcohol industry. The Notification has been challenged before Thailand's Administrative Court, but pending the outcome of that case, it has come into effect on April 22 2015.

Following the move from a self-assessment system to a positive-grant system in 2014, a Singapore patent application can only proceed to grant if the relevant requirements are fulfilled, including patentability requirements. An applicant can still elect the examination route for his application to meet such requirements. Where a positive final result from a PCT, corresponding or related application is available, the applicant has the option of requesting supplementary examination with a view to a quick examination of the application in a relatively cost-effective manner.

Denmark is a country well-known for sustainability, renewable energy, especially wind energy, Lego and Insulin. What may be less known is that Denmark has a number of self-governing areas including Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Last month Utynam attended Managing IP’s third annual EU Patent Reform Forum, held in Munich and Paris, and also visited the MARQUES conference in Vienna. Here are a few impressions

In Taiwan's invalidation procedure, once the IP Office has made a determination of the validity of each claim and held that the invalidation is groundless, the case may be appealed to the Board of Appeals and subsequently to the IP Court. According to the provision of Article 33 of the Intellectual Property Adjudication Act, during the course of administrative litigation, the invalidation petitioner may, in addition to relying on the originally filed evidence, submit new evidence in regard to such grounds as novelty or inventive step. On the other hand, the patentee, to dispel the effectiveness of the new evidence, may sometimes need to conduct post-grant amendment before the IP Office to prevent the claims from being invalidated.

Managing IP rounds up the precedential decisions coming out of the Federal Circuit this week, with one highlight from the previous week

Karen Abraham of Shearn Delamore & Co discusses how Malaysia is harnessing the benefits of regional IP co-operation, spurred by recent IP monetisation initiatives

Patent applicants have been warned that there may be a shortage of patent translators to handle the expected rise in US-originating PCT applications entering the national phase this month and in October. Managing IP investigates