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  • In April 2016, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision in Noble House Home Furnishings, LLC v Floorco Enterprises, LLC. This decision is a good reminder about the advisability of memorialising a grant of rights in situations where a company registers a mark in the name of one entity and then exploits the mark through a related entity.
  • On April 5 2016, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) posted its proposed amendments to the implementing rules and regulations on inter partes proceedings inviting comments from the public. The proposed amendments are intended to simplify and speed up the resolution of cases before the Bureau of Legal Affairs (BLA), the adjudicating bureau of the IPOPHL.
  • The opt‐out possibility offered by Article 83 UPCA pays lots of attention to the choices patentees are facing with regards to their filing strategy. We focus here on defensive strategies in the new legislative framework, in particular on actions before national courts.
  • China's State Council will soon issue a draft of the country's first E‐Commerce Law for public comment. Provisions of this proposed law may offer new tools for protecting trade marks and other IP rights online.
  • A Japanese small and medium-sized enterprise challenged world leading company Apple and obtained a favourable decision. Despite the fact that parties agreed on the exclusive jurisdiction in California where Apple is headquartered, a court invalidated the jurisdiction clause and held that the Japanese court has jurisdiction.
  • The St Petersburg department of the Antimonopoly Body issued a decision in December 2015 in a dispute between two economic entities selling homogeneous goods – butter.
  • In interim proceedings between Novartis and Teva, the Dutch Court of The Hague has decided that a medicinal product may benefit from the six-month extension of the supplementary protection certificate (SPC) provided for by paediatric regulation (EC) No 1901/2006, even taking into account that the drug had previously been registered as an orphan medicinal product.
  • In a decision rendered by the Romanian Trademark Office (TMO) in November 2015 (communicated to the parties in March 2016), the examiners found that there is no likelihood of confusion between Mark Adams No 1 and Mark 10.
  • On February 22 2016, the prime minister announced a referendum on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, to take place on June 23 2016. In treatment typical of the UK press, this has been christened Brexit: a term rapidly accepted into general parlance within the UK but, understandably, not outside.
  • Brazil’s decision to host the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics has left an IP legacy to go with the improved infrastructure. Sponsors are now more able to defend themselves against ambush marketing, explains Alberto Guerra