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The nominations for the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2017 have been announced (please scroll down for the full list). On November 9, Asia's leading female lawyers will gather at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong to celebrate the achievements of women in the legal profession.

A concurring opinion in Nidec Motor v Zhongshan Broad Ocean Motor critical of the PTAB’s position on joinder and expanded panels suggests the Federal Circuit will further scrutinise these issues in future decisions

The report on counterfeiting, how it is moving online and the impact of social media was commissioned by the UK IP Office. It draws five conclusions and makes two recommendations

For the Women in IP network, Mayer Brown JSM’s Gabriela Kennedy speaks to Alice O’Donkor about the growth of e-commerce, IP litigation and enforcement in China

The UK Supreme Court’s decision in R v C that there is criminal liability for dealing in grey goods which the trade mark owner has not authorised for sale has been hailed as great news for brand owners. Anna Carboni, Darren Meale and Arty Rajendra give their opinion on whether it catches parallel imports and what it means for brand owners, grey goods dealers and enforcement authorities

In general, among the three types of patents, patent for invention offers protection of the broadest subject matters, including products, processes and usages. Patent for utility model aims at protecting product with the shape, structure, or their combination. Accordingly, method, usage, ingredient and the like cannot be protected by utility model. Patent for design protects the appearance of product in the form of shape, pattern, or their combination, or the combination of the color with shape or pattern of product, which creates an aesthetic feeling.

The government of Canada continues to modernise Canada's IP framework to comply with a number of international IP treaties, including the Patent Law Treaty (PLT). Previous amendments to the Canadian Patent Act have been made, but are not yet in force, to comply with the requirements of the PLT. The government of Canada is now in the process of amending the accompanying Canadian Patent Rules, which will guide how the Act is applied. A public consultation on proposed amendments to the Rules runs from August 1 to September 8 2017. In view of the necessary steps in the regulatory approval process in Canada, the amended Rules could be in force by early 2019.

Cambodia and Thailand have made modifications to the rules and regulations related to their trade mark application filing procedures as part of the ongoing south-east Asia region-wide trend towards electronic IP processes.

April 21 2017, was a milestone in the settlement of IP infringement cases relating to .vn domain names in Vietnam. This was the day the domain name bmw.com.vn was withdrawn by the national domain name management agency, the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), taking control of the domain away from the registrant by 'flicking a switch' at the registry. It marked the first time under recently passed legislation that VNNIC had withdrawn a domain name at the request of the IP infringement settlement agency, the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).