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In a review of the biggest US trade mark issues, Wolf Greenfield’s John Welch says two rule changes are having a big impact at the TTAB while the issue of USPTO attorneys' fees in district court cases is worth watching

The South African Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that retailer Woolworths must stop using the phrase Good Old Fashioned as it imitates a beverage manufacturer's Good Old Fashioned Soft Drinks advertising slogan.

The deadline of February 19 for Apple and Samsung to mediate their patent dispute has passed without agreement. The two parties will be back in a Californian court at the end of March

Five Central American states and the Dominican Republic have recently signed a free trade agreement with the US. Luis Ernesto Guandique Chávez, Luis F Ruiz, Ricardo Anibal Mejia and Ricardo Bendaña examine the impact of the treaty in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

The US Chamber of Commerce’s new global IP index shows the US patent system strengthened in 2018, attributing the improvement to USPTO director Andrei Iancu’s initiatives

Managing IP has been reporting from the AIPPI World Congress in Milan. Download our AIPPI Congress News daily newsletters to read all the news

The UK’s Privy Council has approved the Unified Patent Court (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2017, the last piece of legislation required for the UK to ratify. In Germany, seven institutions and associations submitted statements on the constitutional complaint against the UPC

In a recent decision, the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris has confirmed that the rules of professional secrecy applicable to the French IP counsel profession (Article L422-11 of the Intellectual Property Code) include absolute professional secrecy which extends to professional correspondence exchanged between the French patent counsel and a client, a third party, a colleague or a lawyer.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP), also known as TPP-11 is a trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. With seven participating parties now having ratified the agreement, the CPTPP has entered into force.

Following the high-profile withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2017, the remaining members agreed to move forward with a revised trade agreement called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP. The CPTPP came into force on December 30 2018 between the first six signatories, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore. Vietnam, the seventh country to ratify the new agreement, officially joined the CPTPP on January 14 2019.