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The world's biggest selling drug is under attack on both sides of the Atlantic as its patent expiry looms. AstraZeneca, maker of Losec, has been accused of breaching European competition rules, and is also facing litigation to stop US companies bringing out generic versions of the drug.

Abhai Pandey and Swati Setia of LEXORBIS IP Practice provide an overview of recent IP developments

Almost 400 guests attended dinners on both sides of the Atlantic in March to celebrate the winners of Managing IP's global and North America awards

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

Kirkland & Ellis partners explain how they secured the dismissal of a patent case in which the other side had lied under oath

It is natural to expect that when a company files a patent application it wants to obtain a patent, maintain it and obtain some profit from it. Sometimes the natural course of things is disrupted.

One case that has cast some light on co-ownership of trade marks in Singapore is Ng Chu Chong (trading as Grand Am Fashion Enterprise) v Ng Swee Choon & Ors (Suit No 1108 of 2001/E). Here the plaintiff and his sister, the first defendant, entered into a partnership called Grand Am Fashion Enterprise (Grand Am) to manufacture and sell fashion apparel under the trademark, McBlue. The trademark was created by the first defendant for the partnership and was registered in their joint names, trading as Grand Am. Subsequently, the first defendant withdrew from the partnership due to an impending bankruptcy but continued to work for the plaintiff as an employee. The plaintiff thereafter discovered that another partnership belonging to the first defendant's sister-in-law, named GA Fashion Apparel (GA) was marketing goods bearing the McBlue trade mark. The plaintiff brought an action against the defendants for trade mark infringement and applied for permanent injunction. The first defendant argued that she was entitled as a joint proprietor to authorize GA to purchase and deal with goods bearing the McBlue trade mark.

Google is at the heart of the debate on patent reform in the United States. Last week, James Nurton spoke to the company’s deputy general counsel, patents and patent litigation, Allen Lo, about how its patent strategy has evolved, why it believes there is a troll problem, and what legal changes are needed. Here is the full transcript of the interview

IP offices around the world face an ever-growing range of challenges, from responding to calls for harmonization and the surge in demand for IP services to holding on to well-qualified staff to. IP Australia explain their strategy

IP owners can often draw on the support of administrative enforcement officials tasked with the job of tackling IP offences. This is a guide to doing it in four jurisdictions