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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.

Nowadays, it is common for two or more companies to collaborate in developing certain projects for their common benefit. With the increasing number of companies entering into collaborative innovation, there is more joint ownership of intellectual property in Indonesia. Joint ownership of IP rights often occurs when two or more parties collaborate on a certain project. Each party in the project will then own a certain portion of the work product. The prevailing laws in Indonesia provide no specific guideline with regard to joint ownership of IP rights. Therefore, unless agreed otherwise, each joint owner will own an equal portion of the jointly owned IP rights.

Following the recent MacCoffee decision from the CJEU General Court, Hernán Ríos, Xuefang Huang, Katherine Lai and Coleen Morrison provide a guide to registering trade marks with prefixes and suffixes in Europe, China and North America

On July 22 2016 the much-anticipated report on the business models behind online infringements of IP rights was published by the EUIPO.

The Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office (SPTO) and the Spanish Association for the Defence of Trade marks (ANDEMA) in collaboration with the Leading Brands of Spain Forum (FMRE) and the Chamber of Commerce of Spain have analysed the impact of industrial property rights in our exports, with regard to the internationalisation of companies, the Spanish economy and employment.

Usually people are concerned with what they have inside their head rather than outside. We are used to the knowledge that inventions push forward technology and open new ways to human progress. Sometimes it happens otherwise.

On June 27 2016, the Court of Appeals (CA) denied Nestlé's petition to prevent the registration of San Miguel Corporation's trade mark application for San Mig Coffee Mild Sugar Free Label Design filed with the Intellectual Property Office (IPOPHL) on June 7 2005.

Crowdsourcing trade marks is becoming more popular and powerful, but care should be taken. Dydra Donath, Laetitia Lagarde, Lisa Pearson, Kate Swaine, Stella Syrianos and Kalina Tchakarova explain

Since it was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, the incandescent filament lamp had played the leading part in the illumination field for more than a century. However, in the 1990s, Nichia Corporation made a breakthrough by succeeding in the practical use and mass-production of blue LED for the first time in the world and achieved a paradigm shift in the illumination field by the practical use and mass-production of white LED. This case is about the essential patent for the blue LED.

Our columnist Utynam has been inspired by the recent Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to seek out sport-related IP news