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Enforcement and licensing on the rise in Brazil

José Carlos Vaz e Dias of Vaz e Dias Advogados & Associados reports on the latest developments to improve the Brazilian IP system

Managing IP Correspondent, November 22 2016

Looking to a brighter future

Opposition proceedings were introduced into Canada's trade mark legislation just over 50 years ago. While the opposition process functioned relatively well for the first few decades, such has not been the case recently. Gary Partington and Coleen Morrison of Marks & Clerk examine what changes lie ahead

Managing IP Correspondent, February 01 2006

Life sciences: a legal and regulatory update

Cedric Lam and Isabella Liu of law firm Dorsey & Whitney examine the most important legal and regulatory developments in China in recent years and explain what they mean for the protection and commercialisation of life sciences innovations

Managing IP Correspondent, March 31 2009

How to draft parameter patents

The EPO is becoming stricter when it comes to examining parameter patents. Edward Farrington of Valea considers the case law and explains what the trends mean for patent applicants and their business rivals

Managing IP Correspondent, June 30 2009

Rights for all

A wealth of IP rights exists in innovations from the developing world, particularly in biodiversity inventions. The battle has always been to secure access to those rights. India’s Honey Bee Network is one organization fighting for a fairer system. Ralph Cunningham reports

Managing IP Correspondent, May 31 2002

Madrid in the US: six months on

The USPTO's accession to the Madrid Protocol has been relatively painless, despite problems over payment and electronic filing. J Allison Strickland offers some practical advice to international trade mark owners hoping to extend their protection

Managing IP Correspondent, April 30 2004

Kim Dotcom, Rick Ross, Segway, Adidas, Skechers – the week in IP

Kim Dotcom attending an extradition hearing in New Zealand, Rick Ross failing in a trade mark suit over the phrase "everyday I'm shufflin", Segway suing the makers of Hovertrax, and Adidas claiming Skechers has infringed its trade mark were in the IP headlines in the past week

September 20 2015

Craft beer disputes, Stairway to Heaven, Kim Dotcom, Nike, WWE, PTAB, Thomson Reuters – the week in IP

Craft brewery trade mark disputes, the sale of Thomson Reuters’ IP business, a request for fees in the Stairway to Heaven copyright case, Kim Dotcom’s plans to relaunch Megaupload, Nike’s opposition to a WWE application, and the PTAB’s new processing system going live were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

July 12 2016

Analysing patent filing in China

Justin Simpson of RWS and Xia Zheng of AFD addressed a range of issues in a recent webinar hosted by Managing IP, including trends in China’s PCT application data, types of patent protection and enforcement methods

Sanjana Kapila, July 02 2018

Practitioners demand more work on unified patent court plan

The latest proposals for a European patent court could impede innovation, competition and growth for years to come, according to a group of UK patent specialists

September 12 2011

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