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A patent settlement between Nvidia and Samsung, a retrial in the Oracle v Google copyright case, an iPhone trade mark ruling in China, an analysis of the Eastern District of Texas, and a dispute over the World Series mark were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week

World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevêdo this week appointed three panelists to consider the legality of Australia’s law requiring plain packaging for tobacco products

The Court of Justice of the EU has emphatically dismissed two challenges to the Regulations establishing the Unitary Patent filed by the Spanish government

The England and Wales Court of Appeal has confirmed that senior courts have jurisdiction to grant an injunction requiring ISPs in the UK to block websites selling counterfeit goods, in a case involving Cartier. The Court also held that ISPs can bear the costs of implementing such orders

Trade marks containing the term "Eco" are not accepted by the Greek Trade Mark Office, unless permission to use the term has been awarded to the applicant under EC Regulation 880/1992 on the Community eco-label award scheme or under to an award system applicable in an EU member state.

Following the recent amendments to the PRC Trade Mark Law that took effect on May 1 2014, China issued revised Well-Known Mark Recognition and Protection Provisions in early July 2014, with effect from August 2 2014, that supersede the existing provisions from 2003.

While the recently released EPO performance statistics for 2015 show an increase in the number of grants compared to the previous year and a decrease of backlog of searches by two thirds, delay in examination of pending cases is still of concern to some. A recent appeal decision rendered in the field of computer implemented inventions reveals that excessive examination delays do not amuse the Boards of Appeal. More specifically, in decision T 823/11 rendered in December 2015, Board 3.5.07 has ruled that duration of examination proceedings of more than 12 years must be regarded as excessive and amounts to a substantial procedural violation.

A study on the USPTO teleworking programme, a "smoking gun” in the Happy Birthday copyright case, the TTAB criticising an attorney for being pedantic, Michael Jordan losing a trade mark case in China, and the Federal Circuit weighing in on the ParkerVision/Qualcomm case were in the IP headlines in the past week

The gaming company’s IP lawyer Renee Lawson tells Emma Barraclough about the move from partner to start-up, why the company listens to its lawyers, and the ups and downs of cross-border litigation

Sports sponsorship is big business, and can bring benefits to both the brand owner and the endorser. Nisha Kumar discusses how you can minimise the damage when things go wrong