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A decision finding Google liable for trademark infringement and the launch of a new IP services group were also among the top talking points

Parodies have long been popular in English culture, but it was only in October 2014 that a parody exception was introduced to the copyright law. A year on, Iona Silverman sets out what both rights owners and parodists should bear in mind

In the Austrian legal system a concept or defence based on acquiescence or past tolerance of behaviour is unknown – only the statute of limitation exists. Acquiescence has been implanted into it as alien element only in the Trade Mark Law and in the Law Against Unfair Competition as far as it regulates commercially used signs when Austria in 1999 finally implemented fully Article 9 of the EU Trade Mark Harmonisation Directive. No wonder that Austrian trade mark owners and courts still struggle with this concept.

The Icann Board has approved the application for .xxx after seven years of deliberation

WIPO says that its Arbitration and Mediation Center handled 2,764 UDRP cases covering 4,781 domain names last year, the highest figure since it began hearing cybersquatting complaints

IP owners are mistaken if they imagine yesterday’s decision by MEPs not to refer questions about ACTA to the EU’s top court reflected a softening in their position

Judges at China's top court are considering how to revise a judicial interpretation to help guide lower courts on the granting of preliminary injunctions in IP cases.

Collaboration between patent offices on patent searching is “exciting” and could lead to “a much better product”, WIPO Deputy Director General James Pooley said at Managing IP’s International Patent Forum in London

The need for a clear problem and solution was demonstrated in a recent decision by Stockholm´ s Tingsrätt (The Stockholm City Court), the first instance for all patent litigation in Sweden. The problem/solution approach is one of the basic principles in European patent practice. In case No. T7-19-97 the validity of European patent 0138152 was tried by the City Court.

As we build up to another busy year for the IP STARS rankings and Managing IP Awards, we give a rundown of some of the major IP firms and trends in the UK