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The Association for Molecular Pathology has asked the US Supreme Court to consider whether isolated DNA sequences are patentable under US law

This war concerns the use of the sign Bud and was fought between the famous brewery in Ceske Budejovice distributing its Budweiser Bier, famous in Austria, and an Austrian importer of American Bud and Bud Light from Anheuser-Bush. The case had been, with different legal questions, twice before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and three times before the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH).

OHIM’s new mediation service in appeal proceedings in inter partes proceedings entered into force on October 23 2011. With this voluntary service, the parties are invited to reach a friendly settlement by filing a request to the Board of Appeal (BoA), which is the body in charge of the mediation service. Both parties, or their representatives, must sign the request for mediation, or otherwise show that the consent of the other party has been obtained. The mediation will be free of charge when conducted in OHIM’s office in Alicante. There is also the possibility to hold it at OHIM’s office in Brussels, where the Gevers headquarters are situated, for an administrative charge of €750.

As director of product management at VeriSign, Sarah Langstone is responsible for educating brands about the new gTLD programme and said she has no time to rest before the application period opens

The Paris Appeal Court recently rendered its ruling in litigation involving an alleged infringer who had taken on the French Patent Office (INPI). It is one of the first decisions on the ability of a third party to take part in a decision related to a patent limitation.

Last summer there was a big change in the Rules of Civil Procedure in Greece relating to injunction proceedings, which are applicable in IP infringement cases. Under a previous rule, a claimant that was successful in injunction proceedings had to file a main lawsuit within 30 days of the grant of the injunction. If it did not, the injunction automatically became unenforceable. Under the new rule, the claimant does not have to do this unless it is specifically mentioned in the judgment under which the injunction was granted.

Patent attorneys and IP owners who want protection for their stem cell research will soon get new guidance from the European Patent Office about what is, and is not, patentable

Nominet’s senior legal counsel has admitted his growing frustration at a working group that was asked to propose policy changes on seizing .uk domains

It’s raining reforms in the IP Office at the moment. In October, the Department of Industrial Promotion and Policy (DIPP) sought comments on possible ways of strengthening and restructuring the IP Office in India. Following in the footsteps of the USPTO and the EPO, this discussion paper also hints at the possibility of providing greater financial and administrative autonomy to the Office. It will be interesting to examine the nature of the comments received and the steps that may be initiated in this regard.

On November 14 2011, China issued The 2012 Plan to Boost the National Patent Industry Development Strategy, aimed at carrying out and implementing the National Intellectual Property Strategy Outline relating to patents, so as to facilitate the effective integration of patent work as part of economic and social development.