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The firm’s IP head outlines aims to double the number of partners and explains how it has been able to break into the elite group of patent litigation players

Survey data covering thousands of trademarks counsel reveals where in-house clients are underserved and how external advisers can help

Nearly 10,000 trade mark practitioners registered for the INTA Annual Meeting in San Diego this week. Managing IP was there to record what was said, heard and seen

Indonesian IP laws have always required IP rights licences in Indonesia to be recorded at the Intellectual Property Office. This requirement is set out on the Copyright Law, Patent Law, Trade Mark Law, Industrial Design Law, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits Law and Trade Secrets Law. However, such recordal mechanism has not been carried out due to the lack of implementing regulation, even though the legal consequence is that, if an IP licence is not recorded, it would not be binding on any third parties.

One of the EPO's Technical Boards of Appeal has recently reminded the community of the front-loaded nature of inter partes opposition proceedings. In proceedings leading to decision T 2193/14 dated 14 March 2017 and made publicly available on May 11 2017, the opponent was deprived of the possibility of having certain prior art citations considered which purportedly were relevant for the assessment of non-obviousness. The Board of Appeal denied the admissibility into the proceedings of the aforementioned citations, which were submitted by the opponent on appeal only, and eventually confirmed the patentability of the claimed subject-matter without having considered the citations in question on their substantive merits.

The trade mark Pascal was registered in 2004. In 2005 the owner applied for the trade mark Pascal Søtt & Salt (Pascal Sweet & Salty) for restaurant services in class 43.

Guidelines for the production of biosimilar antibody drugs in Europe released last week focused on safety rather than efficacy, setting a lower hurdle than had been feared

OHIM has the opportunity to “become a true IP agency and not just a registration office”, its new President António Campinos said last week

The General Court of the EU has rejected an appeal over the trade mark Dada, after the opponent failed to fax its documentation in time

English courts have jurisdiction to hear disputes over US copyright involving English defendants, the UK Supreme Court ruled today