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Jurisprudence has had fixed rules for a long time on the reconditioning of pharmaceutical products by parallel importers, without the consent of the trade mark owner.

It is widely known that amendments to the Mexican Law of Industrial Property which have an impact on trade marks came into full force on August 10 2018. Especially relevant is the Declaration of Effective Use (DOU) to preserve trade mark protection. A first DOU is provided for those registrations granted from August 10 2018 and must be filed within three months of the third anniversary of the date of grant of the registration. Failure to file the DOU will cause the registration to lapse. In turn, for renewal purposes, a DOU must be filed. In both cases the DOU's must specify the goods/services for which the trade mark is effectively in use in Mexico. Protection will remain only for those specific goods or services.

“I believe that the current amendment process in AIA proceedings is not working as intended,” said Andrei Iancu, announcing a new procedure at the AIPLA Annual Meeting

IP practitioners in China are concerned about the high volume of cases the proposed court would need to handle

A top adviser to the Court of Justice of the EU has advised the court to rule that a simple military report cannot be protected by copyright

In a speech, the USPTO director criticises “Orwellian ‘doublespeak’” of those who tell stories about patent trolls

“There is no realistic way to say we are a generalist court at this point,” Judge Chen said at a conference, while noting that the Federal Circuit is “more and more of a patent validity court”

Social media is increasingly becoming a factor in e-discovery, while new sources of electronically stored information are emerging such as smartwatches and vehicle technology

The Global Innovation Index 2018 report released in July 2018 ranked Singapore fifth among 126 innovative nations around the world. Singapore retained its first place ranking in Asia for the fifth year running and is only found to be less innovative than Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Singapore's strong performance in the Global Innovation Index is attributed to the various government initiatives and programmes launched to spur and protect innovation in the city-state.

Reiterating the new “markedly different” approach to questions of infringement, Lord Justice Kitchin in a recent case found that Ice-World's patent was invalid but Icescape’s temporary ice-rink would have infringed as an immaterial variant