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Lawyers at Novartis, Siemens, Honeywell, Salesforce and elsewhere lay out the qualities and experience they think the new IP office head should have

With multiple pieces and parts, protecting CAR-T therapies is more like patenting a mobile phone than a single-molecule drug, according to counsel at Celgene and other drug innovators

The minimum requirements for securing a filing date (and priority date) of a Malaysian patent application to be issued by the Malaysian IP Office (MyIPO) are: a) the name and address of the applicant(s), b) the name and address of the inventor(s), c) a patent specification comprising a description, claims and any necessary drawings; and d) the country and filing date of any earlier application whose priority is claimed. It is preferable, although not essential, to file the following additional information and documents with the initial application; e) the serial number of any priority application and the symbol of the International Patent Classification (IPC) allocated to it (if available), f) the state of incorporation/nationality of the applicant; g) an abstract of the invention; h) an Appointment of Agent form signed by the applicant and i) if the applicant is not the inventor, a statement explaining how the applicant derives its right to the patent from the inventor(s), normally by virtue of assignment, employment or any other agreement.

Patent holding company Intellectual Ventures is suing 12 companies, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Hynix Semiconductor, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, for infringing five of its patents

Managing IP rounds up the latest patent, trademark and copyright news, including some stories you may have missed

Zhifei An, Jian Zhang and Xiaoming Zhang of Liu Shen & Associates evaluate the impact of the IoT on data ownership, its relationship to blockchain, why the IoT is vulnerable to enforcement actions from NPEs and the race to patent technologies in this area

Young-Sun Jung and Minji Ryan Kim of FirstLaw evaluate Korea’s increasingly pro-patentee IP system, analysing updates to the law relating to the calculation of damages, burden of proof and patent invalidation

Industry sources at the Pharmaceutical Patent Term Extension conference in Munich question the practical details of unitary SPCs, including granting procedure, enforcement, and judicial review

After 25 years on the judiciary, ruling on blockbuster cases including Apple v Samsung, the judge gives insight into the demands of her part-time role – and how she feels when overturned on appeal

David Wong provides updates on Hong Kong’s original grant patent system and its application of the Madrid Protocol, and provides his outlook on innovative technology in service delivery