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Several sections related to IP-related matters in the Argentine New Civil and Commercial Code are among the regulations that govern agreements, and among those agreements it is the franchise agreement that has the largest amount of regulations of interest in terms of intellectual property.

At the end of February the Preparatory Committee for the Unified Patent Court announced the definitive proposal for court fees for the UPC, which is planned to start in early 2017.

Wi-Fi is perhaps one of the most famous words in the modern world. It would seem it is an acronym which it is not. It is a nonsense word. Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, explained that it does not mean anything at all. It just sounds like it means something. Aside from being nonsensical it is a trade mark and thus it acquires very much sense.

Despite the importance of preliminary injunctions (PI) in intellectual property disputes to ensure a quick cessation of infringement and to prevent imminent harm to the rights holder, it has been a challenge to get PIs granted in Vietnam. However, correctly identifying and addressing the current obstacles to the application of PIs could make it easier to obtain them in future cases.

When brand owners face trade mark infringement in Cambodia, they have access to a number of enforcement options to take against infringers and protect their rights. Sending a cease-and-desist letter to an infringer requesting them to stop the infringement is a standard first port of call. If the infringer refuses to comply with the letter's demands, a public notice or warning can be used to help make the public aware of the infringement. Border measures are available to suspend clearance for inspection of alleged counterfeit goods. And of course, criminal and civil actions can be pursued through the police and the courts.

After the product patent had expired, the brand name pharmaceutical company sued generic drug manufacturers based on a manufacturing process patent. The Tokyo District Court affirmed infringement under the doctrine of equivalents (DOE) for the medicinal compound's manufacturing process patent.

The court of appeal of The Hague recently ruled that the lifelike stuffed animal reproduction of a dog is protected by copyright. This decision once again proves that the threshold for claimants to invoke copyright is quite low.

Our latest UPC scenario looks at a case involving a standard-essential patent. Michael Carter, Nick Cunningham and David Barron consider a defendant’s options in the new court system

In determining the scope of patent protection in China, the question of support for the claims has come into focus, particularly for bio-medical inventions. Wenhui Zhang and Stephen Zou review some recent decisions

The Council of Ministers of Mozambique approved a new Mozambique Industrial Property Code on December 31 2015, which will come into force on March 31 2016, replacing the 2006 Industrial Property Code.