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  • Broadcasters, libraries and museums will be able to digitise certain types of orphan works - such as photos, films and poems - without rights holders’ consent, after European politicians agreed a deal this week
  • US patent case filing in district courts was the second-highest ever in 2015, with one study suggesting that non-practicing entities increased their percentage of cases filed to 69% from 61% in 2014
  • Among the IP-related items in the news this week were Martin Luther King's speech, adverts against trolls and investigators in China
  • The Brazil IP office president’s efforts to reduce one of the world’s worst backlogs have been derailed by recession. However, he hopes to take proactive measures, despite sceptical IP practitioners inside and outside Brazil and the controversy over double examination of pharmaceutical patents. Michael Loney reports
  • Hip hop music, the Louboutin red sole shoes and copyright protection for food are among the subjects of disputes pending before the European courts. Managing IP provides a guide to some of the more significant cases coming up this year
  • Matthew Ward of Shelston IP answers questions on the key developments of Australian patent law, including elucidation of the failings of the Innovation Patent Regime
  • Blair Beven and Joe Seisdedos of AJ Park report on recent developments on the Australian IP scene, including a crackdown on piracy and copyright theft
  • New Zealand's new Patents Act 2013 will come into force on or before September 13 2014. The main changes include tougher examination of patent applications, timing and deadlines, subject matter exclusions and divisional applications.
  • Topics discussed at our recent European Patent Forum USA included the potential timeline for Germany ratifying the UPC, FRAND after Unwired Planet v Huawei, the patentability of computer-implemented inventions at the EPO, patent enforcement strategies in Europe and hot tubbing of experts in the UK
  • Following the recent MacCoffee decision from the CJEU General Court, Hernán Ríos, Xuefang Huang, Katherine Lai and Coleen Morrison provide a guide to registering trade marks with prefixes and suffixes in Europe, China and North America