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The Delhi High Court, in Tata Sons v Greenpeace, recently denied interim injunction to Tata Sons, in an action that sought a permanent injunction and damages amounting to Rs100 million ($2.17 million) against Greenpeace. Tata has initiated an action for infringement of trade mark and defamation and disparagement against Greenpeace. The cause of action for the case arose from a game, modeled around the popular Pac-man game, named Turtle v TATA, that depicts turtles being chased by the Tata logo. The game was intended to raise awareness on the alleged adverse impact of the Dhamra Port Project, a joint venture project between Tata Sons and Larsen and Toubro, on Olive Ridley turtles.

Along with the development of science and technology that affects economic competition in the global market, and to implement the provisions of International Treaties, in 2010 the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights of the Department of Justice and Human Rights prepared a draft amendment to law number 14 of 2001 concerning patents. Its main purpose is to provide an ordinance to protect the interests of the inventor of patents and improvements in the Patent Law Regulations.

WIPO has published a 2.0 version of its overview of UDRP proceedings, which plays an important role in shaping UDRP arguments and decisions

UK patent attorney firm Venner Shipley has launched an iPhone app.

The Israel Patent Law is anomalous in that pending applications do not publish automatically 18 months after priority. Only after allowance is an abstract published and the file becomes available for inspection. However, basic details of new patent filings, including the name of applicant, title, priority and filing dates were required by law, to be published in the Official Israel Patent Office Gazette (Reshumot in Hebrew) shortly after filing.

A drive to speed up the processing of divisional applications in Australia has caught out a number of patent applicants and led to complaints that the time limits are too strict

What is an embryo? Advocate General M Yves Bot provided his opinion on this in case C-34/10 (Brüstle v Greenpeace).

As we wrote in the previous issue of Managing Intellectual Property, before 1992 Norway did not accept product patents on active ingredients in medicaments, only "analogous method of preparation" claims were accepted. This means that there will be active patents in Norway comprising such claims until the end of 2011 and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) throughout 2016.

On March 8 2011, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) published on its website Office Order Number 186 Series of 2010, which amends its regulations on administrative complaints for IP rights violations. The amendments focus on the provisions affecting the issuance of a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. Under the old rules, a temporary restraining order shall only be issued after all the parties are heard in a summary hearing, which shall be conducted within 24 hours of the sheriff's return of service and after the records are received by the assigned hearing officer. Moreover, under the same old rules, a writ of preliminary injunction shall have a maximum life of 90 days, and after payment of a cash bond.

The registries stakeholder group has condemned Icann staff for not communicating with the .jobs registry before sending it a breach notice