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On the basis of its Red Bull – and Bull – marks for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and Class 3 goods like perfumes, the firm behind Red Bull has requested cancellation of the word mark Pitbull and the device showing in the centre the head of a pit-bull terrier with the word Pitbull above it and below the words "get the power". These marks were registered for identical goods, so there was no controversy about this point.

On November 25 2010, the National Copyright Bureau of China (NCB) promulgated the Measures for Registration of Copyright Pledge, replacing the Measures for Registration of Copyright Pledge Contract of September 23 1996. The new measures came into effect on January 1 2011.

A recent decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal has clarified what some had viewed as permission by the trial division to use third-party marks in keyword advertising

A majority of 23 of the EU's 27 member states are now moving forward to implement a unitary EU patent by way of an enhanced cooperation. The four member states who have decided not to participate in the enhanced cooperation are Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Cyprus. Spain and Italy have in particular opposed the EU patent adopting a language regime that excludes their respective languages.

This part of the most comprehensive annual study of leading IP firms looks at trade mark practice in Africa and the Middle East

OHIM’s Cooperation Fund is tasked with integrating and harmonising IP procedures in the EU. Lord Mogg, who chairs the board managing the fund, agreed to answer Managing IP’s questions by email

The Full Federal Court of Australia has found that an Australian internet service provider did not authorise copyright infringement carried out by its customers in a case that is now likely to be appealed to the High Court

In an action for infringement of a 3D trade mark, decision 585/2010 of the Athens Multimember Court of First Instance defined the conditions under which a 3D trademark depicting the product that it distinguishes has distinctive character. The court accepted that the plaintiff's filled rolled wafer in the shape of a cigar was innovative, since wafers had previously been flat and without a filling. For this reason, the court found that a three-dimensional trade mark depicting the product has distinctive character.

The Spanish trade mark court in Alicante has ordered the website Youkioske to remove the display of magazines owned by publishers Hearts and Condé Nast.

Find out which firms are highly ranked, and which are up and down in the key EU markets as well as central and southern Europe