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After 20 years of deliberation, a tribunal in New Zealand is finally planning to release a report next month on how the rights of its indigenous people should be protected

A court in the Netherlands has briefly allowed LG Electronics to seize the entire supply of Sony's Playstation 3 (PS3) in the Netherlands. The seizure was based on infringement of an LG patent on the Blu-ray player in the PS3. The order was given ex parte, without first hearing Sony. In subsequent inter parte proceedings, another court lifted the seizure.

The design of packaging will often be very important and valuable for a manufacturer in order to distinguish its goods in today's market. Mast-Jägermeister recently succeeded in its efforts to achieve protection for its bottle design (without a label) as a three-dimensional trade mark in Norway.

OHIM has launched its annual report, featuring presentations on trends, revenue and status of running projects. The six-minute video provides a summary of OHIM's work alongside statistics and bar charts.

In a show of sympathy to Japanese IP rights holders whose activities may have been disrupted by the calamities which visited Japan starting March 11 2011, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) issued Office Order 53, series of 2011 entitled Accomodations for Patent and Trademark Applicants, Owners and Agents Affected by the Calamity in Japan, which was published on April 2 2011 and took effect on the same day. Patent filings in the Philippines from Japan are the second largest, after the US, hence the decision of the IPOPHL to be more liberal and promote goodwill.

The Supreme Administrative Court, by virtue of a judgment of January 18 2011 (case II GSK 56/10), dismissed a cassation complaint against a judgment of the District Administrative Court in Warsaw. That case resulted from a complaint filed by Novartis against a decision of the Polish Patent Office on dismissal of an opposition in respect of a trade mark registration in the name of Farmaceutyczna Spoldzielnia Pracy Galena. The judgment is final and valid.

Dr Helen Papaconstantinou, John Filias and Associates provide a comprehensive guide to filing and protecting patents in Greece

WIPO Director General stressed the role of designs as "the language of communication of objects" in his message for World IP Day

South Africa has joined its IP registration and enforcement agencies together for the first time, ahead of a full-scale review of IP policy

In one of the first major cases on design infringement in Romania, the Bucharest Tribunal has convicted a Romanian company found to infringe the rights of Microfibers to pay €210,000 as damages, as well as approximately €19,000 per trial expenses.