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Diversity and inclusion factors are tipping the hiring scales towards law firms with varied teams, and clients are influencing their legal partners to cast wider recruitment and development nets

Counsel from IBM, Nokia, Huawei and others discussed FRAND and questioned the necessity of transparency in licensing terms, at the Fordham IP Conference in New York last week

The similarity of two conflicting marks is one of the fundamentals of trademark law. It becomes relevant whenever two trademarks collide, whether it is during the application process, in opposition and cancellation, or during infringement proceedings.

While the theory around artificial intelligence generates a lot of interest, particularly for trademark specialists, it’s time to assess the potential practical impact on the law, say Lee Curtis and Rachel Platts of HGF

Youping Ma and Guoquan Yang of Bridgeon assess whether AI-related technology is patent eligible in China, analysing the way in which China interprets claims and providing advice on how to file an AI patent application in the jurisdiction

HU Gang of CCPIT examines the best way to approach trademark litigation in China, providing advice on assembling evidence correctly, assessing the prospects of success, choosing an appropriate court, and selecting the right defendant

Olga Plyasunova of Zuykov and partners examines the situations in which Rospatent will refuse registration of a trademark due to falsity or the possibility of confusion, offering advice on how to overcome potential rejections

China forms the centrepiece of this issue's cover story.

Republic Act No. 10963 or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), revising the outdated National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 took effect on January 1 2018. Its objective is to "correct a number of deficiencies in the tax system by making it simpler, fairer and more efficient". A new section on fuel marking was introduced in the TRAIN to curb smuggling and misdeclaration of petroleum products which has resulted in revenue losses from excise and value added taxes estimated by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Philippine pesos at 37.5 billion annually.

Discovery of evidence and actions for determination of evidence are separately regulated under the Civil Procedural Law. Discovery of evidence is a preliminary step taken before any action on merits and it only serves to discover and record the evidence that may be relevant to an ongoing or future action on merits.