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When talking about reserva rights – a legal institution exclusive to the Mexican legal system, which protects a variety of assets, such as titles of publications or broadcasts, among others– there is a problem that stands out: an absence of certainty regarding the criteria used by the authority (the Mexican Copyright Office, or INDAUTOR) when examining applications.

In early October, the top policy making body in China issued a special opinion proposing to explore the patent linkage system, to extend patent terms for pharmaceuticals and to improve regulatory data protection, all of which are intended to encourage innovation in pharmaceutical and medical device fields. While the exact details of such new policy initiatives are not yet known, it has excited the industry.

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam

Overall success rates of motions to stay district court litigation pending inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board dropped noticeably in the past fiscal year. Christopher Hanewicz and Truscenialyn Brooks of Perkins Coie analyse recent stay statistics, including comparing by district and judge

This March, the IP Court awarded respective triple damages against an infringer on the ground of willful violation of both the Patent Law and the Fair Trade Act in an infringement lawsuit filed by HTC, a Taiwan-based smartphone maker.

China, being a rapidly developing market with a highly flourishing economy, is a main source of trade mark infringement, troubling trade mark owners. Today, we make a brief introduction to one of the most efficient measures for cracking down on trade mark infringement – the AIC enforcement action.

Our world famous Dutch F1 driver Max Verstappen has won a court case he had filed against online supermarket Picnic.

Recent patent infringement cases in Vietnam's pharmaceutical sector have revealed the ambiguity of competent authorities' roles in determining whether a patent has been infringed. Such vagueness has caused unexpected delays in legal proceedings.

On October 30 2017, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) published its revised Examination Guidelines, following legislative changes made to the Singapore Patents Act. The key amendments to the Guidelines include the expansion of the grace period provision, the ability to switch between substantive and supplementary examination, a clarification of the term "discoveries" in regard to patent eligibility and the rejection of post-grant amendment claims which are "obviously invalid".

The USPTO's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision in In re Tapco International Corporation in which it clarified the test for determining whether a mark is deceptive. The USPTO Examiner issued a refusal to register trade mark applications filed by Tapco for the marks KLEER ADHESIVES (covering plastic building products) and KLEER MOULDINGS and KLEER TRIMBOARD (each of which covered building materials made of wood) on the basis that such marks were deceptive and Tapco appealed such refusal to the TTAB.