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Vietnam's Ministry of Health is drafting a circular on compulsory licensing for pharmaceutical patents. From the view of protecting and promoting innovation in the industry, it is worthwhile to consider whether this is the appropriate time to introduce such regulations. This circular, a draft version of which has been released for public comment, could create a slippery slope into abuse of the patent system if certain shortcomings are not addressed.

Enablement was considered in Mexico in the amendments to the Mexican patent law on October 1 1994 and again on September 20 2010.

In The Netherlands, urgent cases can be dealt with in provisional proceedings. Standard case law dictates that in patent cases, urgency is assumed on the basis of a continuing infringement. Urgency can however be lost under special circumstances. In recent case law, such special circumstances have included the lapsing of a significant amount of time between sending a warning letter and serving the writ for a provisional injunction.

In the early 1960s, patent practice was quiet and inventors often faced a hostile environment. But then, like now, new technologies were emerging to reshape business and the economy. Across North America, innovative lawyers set up boutique firms that would transform the market, many of which still exist today. Fifty years on, Jakob Schnaidt tells their story

Copyright offers a potentially powerful tool for addressing piracy in China of logo marks and stylised word marks in the context of oppositions and invalidations. The protection offered applies regardless of the goods or services covered by the pirated mark.

In Taiwan, a design must be "original" to be patentable. Since a design that simulates a known object is not original as required by the Patent Law, a "test for originality" will be applied in determining the patentability of a design over a piece of prior art. According to the Examination Guidelines published by Taiwan's IP Office, to determine whether two designs are similar, the designs shall be viewed from the naked eyes of ordinary consumers without the aid of any instrument. Moreover, as a design patent in Taiwan protects only the visually appreciable appearance of an article of manufacture, the mechanical function and construction of the article, as well as the operation processes involved in the use of the article are all excluded from design patent protection.

The number of international patent applications (PCT and European applications) filed before the Greek patent office as receiving office has been steadily rising over the last few years. However this is certainly not the result of an economic growth. On the contrary the country has been in recession and the market has been shrinking over the years.

For many years, Australia has allowed omnibus claims, which take the form of "an apparatus substantially as hereinbefore described…". They have been utilised as a last line of defence for patentees when suing defendants.

In Guthrie Healthcare System v ContextMedia, Inc, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision regarding the appropriate geographic scope of an injunction in a trade mark infringement case.

On February 24 2016, the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology circulated the draft IP Code on the website of Turkish Patent Institute (TPI). Having passed through various informal and formal consultation stages, the draft IP Code is now in its final enactment stage before the Turkish Parliament and expected to enter into force before the end of 2016.