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A company has lost a UDRP dispute after it failed to produce any evidence of its claimed trade mark licence for pharmaceuticals company Amgen’s mark Kineret

The .info registry Afilias is now taking proposals for one- and two-character .info domains, the latest in top-level domain to do so.

Despite finally being given approval by Icann, the.xxx domain is likely to be blocked in some of Asia’s fastest growing economies, including India and China

As the parties in the Google Books case consider their next steps following the March 22 rejection of their settlement agreement, other copyright holders are monitoring the case’s impact on their interests

After attracting headlines for good and bad reasons in 2009, China’s IP system had a quieter 2010. There was no litigation to rival that of Chint v Schneider and no new legislation to match the third amendment to the Patent Law. The implementing regulations for that amendment have so far caused few problems for patent owners. Worries about the length of time it would take SIPO to do a secrecy examination for foreign filings have so far proved unfounded, with a response time of two to three weeks being the norm. Companies doing R&D in China remain concerned about how the inventor remuneration policies will be interpreted by the courts, but no cases have emerged of yet. IP practitioners are still waiting for the first case to test the IP provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law.

A judge has granted a perpetual injunction restraining the former joint-owner of golf equipment company Hedgehog Golf from disclosing confidential information.

Icann CEO Rod Beckstrom has argued that the US Department of Commerce should relinquish control of the contract for the Internet Assigned Names Authority.

The registry operator of .tel has announced that it will open its landrush for two-character and numeric-only .tel registrations on June 1.

Australia’s pro-competition policy is the best place to start when trying to predict how courts will respond to parallel import cases of trade mark infringement, says Joanne Martin. The same applies to the US, UK and China

Recent unrest is unlikely to halt the long-term development of markets in north Africa. Edward Hardcastle and Nadeen Helou provide a guide to enforcing trade mark rights