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Karen Bolipata speaks to Michael Wu, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Rosetta Stone, about its pending search engine advertisement litigation and the company’s battle to protect its brands online.

At the end of April, the Philippines deposited its instrument of accession to join the Madrid Protocol on international trade marks. It will become the 86th member of the system. But joining Madrid threatens to undermine the trade mark prosecution business of many domestic law firms. Managing IP sat down with the head of the IP Office of the Philippines, Ricardo Blancaflor (right), during the INTA Annual Meeting last month to discuss domestic opposition to Madrid, as well as his anti-counterfeiting work and amendments to the IP Code.

In Sweden, universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) are classed as government agencies, and their main task as stipulated by law is to contribute to research and education. Like all Swedish government agencies, HEIs must abide by the Principle of Public Access to Official Documents. The conflict of interest between, on one hand, the need for increased commercialization of research results and therefore keeping certain results confidential to fulfil the novelty requirement in patent law and, on the other hand, the ambition to promote free research, and the publication of research results becomes obvious. How can this conflict be resolved?

Enforcement continues to be a challenge for trade mark owners in Asia. While some have all the legislative help they can use, others are still labouring with old laws. Protection is just not the priority it needs to be. Ralph Cunningham reports

Licensing plant patents

Following a meeting with the UK Brexit secretary, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said geographical indications continue to be an unresolved issue in the withdrawal agreement and reiterated the EU’s commitment to ensuring those IP rights are not lost

The in-house IP lawyer is often given responsibility for social media policy, even though many of the issues are nothing to do with IP infringement. Carmen Glatt and Kim Scallan give some advice on coping with the role

Guanyang Yao and Zhifei An of Liu Shen & Associates provide an analysis of IP cases decided by China’s Supreme Court and consider the characteristics of each

Following widespread concern that the proposed new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation would stifle licensing and, ultimately, innovation in Europe, the European Commission has proposed last-minute amendments. Guy Heath examines their impact, and whether or not they adequately address those concerns

The UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is to replace retiring chief executive Mick Ralph with Lee Davies from the Institute for Learning. Ralph, who was with the CIPA for almost 40 years, will step down in March. Davies had been at the Institute for Learning, an independent body dedicated to the development of teachers and trainers in the education sector, for seven years, serving most recently as its deputy chief executive.