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Burburry is a most recognisable name. It's no less familiar checkered pattern is present on many clothes and accessories. Almost as often a galloping horseman rides across the checkered pattern. The horseman is registered as a trade mark in Russia under International Registration No 732707 in respect of goods in Class 25.

Registration of sound marks in Thailand has been legally possible since the Thai Trademark Act (No. 3) B.E. 2558 (A.D. 2015) came into force on July 28 2016. However, such registrations remained only a possibility that didn't mature into reality. On September 1 2017, new Ministerial Regulations were issued and guidelines published that provide clarification on the sound mark application process in Thailand as well as details on how to properly complete the revised trade mark application form to claim protection for sound marks.

The decree law pertaining to the protection of patent rights was in force between 1995 and 2017. As per to decree law the rules on how to determine the amount of compensation to be paid to an employee in case of full or partial claim on invention was to be regulated by a regulation. However this regulation was never prepared or enacted.

EU member states all have to amend their trade mark laws in adoption to the new EU Trade Mark Directive until beginning of 2019.

Last month we discussed the EU's position on what they would like to achieve from the Brexit negotiations. This month we focus on the practical implications of trade mark protection in the UK with a simple Q&A.

In a recent case relating to automotive spare parts parallel imports, an interesting issue was raised regarding immediate effect/enforceability of the Court`s order on commercial information disclosure.

The ultimate purpose of a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) is to compensate a patentee for the time lost due to lengthy regulatory approval processes.

Officina Profumo farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella SpA – a 400-year-old company based in Florence, Italy – and its trade mark consultants at Bugnion SpA can claim victory against Chinese trade mark squatters. On October 11 2017 the Italian producer of luxury cosmetics won its oppositions before the CTMO, the Chinese Trademark Office, against a Chinese individual, CAI Zhifeng, who filed in bad faith the company's house mark:

Since the activity of the pharmaceutical industry is a regulated activity, in the sense that medicaments require governmental authorisation in order to be commercialised, registering the trade mark with the Trademark Office – as intellectual property right – is not sufficient to guarantee its use in the pharmaceutical product, because the name of the medicament must be accepted by a health authority at the time of issuance of the marketing and sales authorisation.

In its decision HIGH POINT SARL v KPN BV, the Dutch Supreme Court held that the right of the patentee to limit a European patent before the national courts, as defined by the European convention (EPC) article 137(3), may be restricted by national procedural conditions. Accordingly, the Dutch courts may refuse to consider limited claims that give rise to a new debate about patent validity after filing the grounds of appeal.