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The Supreme Court agreed in November to clarify the scope of the Bayh-Dole Act with respect to ownership of federally funded inventions.

Many jurisdictions don’t use surveys in trade mark disputes. In those that do, many judges regard them with scepticism. Here is a guide to when and where it is worth the cost

Cartagena, Colombia As Managing IP went to press, the board of Icann was meeting in Cartagena, Colombia to approve its Applicant Guidebook for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) online. Small issues including geographical names and the morality and public order clause may yet lead to changes to the Guidebook. But the central text is set and brand owners are now looking to May next year, when they will be able to being applying for new gTLDs. So what do all the aspects of the Guidebook mean and how does a brand owner comply?

French cosmetic company Panouge SAS holds International Registration No 969339 for the trade mark "Masaki Paris" for goods in Class 03. The registration is valid in a number of countries and stems from cooperation between Panouge and Japanese designer Masaki Matsushima. The cosmetic company and the designer concluded a number of agreements providing for the use of the name of the designer in products produced and sold by Panouge. It has been using the name for a long time and in many countries.

Enforcing security interests is not always as simple as we may want it to be, especially when it comes to chasing debtors who retain title or possession of secured IP, or any movable asset collateral, where the debtor can assign or set that asset as collateral in other credits. This situation has driven creditors to refuse to take movable assets as security interests unless they are left in consignment with a creditor or third-party depositary.

A Romanian court has ruled that price approval for a generic medicine does not infringe the patent for the reference product.

The Final Appeal Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa (ASA) has ruled to protect the get-up of the Pritt glue stick. Henkel is the proprietor of the Pritt glue stick, as shown below.

The Court of Appeals in Civil Matters, Division D, has rendered a judgment on an issue of great importance for new technologies: the liability of search engines regarding the content of websites published by third parties.

To what extent should governments try to regulate the internet? After the Netflix dispute, Winston Maxwell and Daniel Brenner compare approaches in Europe and the US

Patent searching products aimed at in-house counsel are multiplying every year. Managing IP’s annual software survey provides comparison tables on the leading providers while Kristin Whitman, below, explains what to watch out for