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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:

In a recent judgment of October 2017, a Division Bench of the Madras High Court in Lifestyle Equities CV v QDSeatoman Designs Pvt. Ltd & Ors has held that IP issues could be subject to arbitration. The fundamental point at dispute was whether and to what extent are IP related rights arbitrable given that they tend to have effect in rem.

IP Australia is proceeding at pace with implementing the Government's response to the Productivity Commission's Report to severely curtail the rights of patent holders.

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.

The electric vehicle (EV) market is expanding more than expected, and battery manufacturers and component manufacturers are accelerating investments in lithium ion battery equipment across the globe. Under this circumstance, a lawsuit was filed against infringement of a patent for a lithium ion battery.

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.

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.

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.

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.