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The US Department of Commerce has issued a report recommending amendments to copyright law that it believes would provide more guidance and greater flexibility to courts in awarding statutory damages

In our latest Unitary Patent and UPC roundup: Finland ratifies the UPC Agreement and its Protocol, UK gears up for ratification with a little legal complexity, UPC judicial posts open to all, and improvements to UPC IT system

Correspondents in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US review the law and recent developments on threats of proceedings for IP infringement that are groundless or may interfere with business activity

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued 12 judgments on cases primarily involving trade marks in 2015. Alice Stagg summarises the most interesting of them

There have been about 11 Section 101 decision per month in US federal courts and the overall success rate has been 72.1% since the Supreme Court’s Alice v CLS Bank decision, according to an analysis by Fenwick & West’s Robert Sachs

Medical device maker Greatbatch has been awarded $37.5 million by a jury in the District of Delaware for AVX infringing its pacemaker and defibrillator patents, in the largest jury award so far this year in a US patent case

In 2015, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in B&B Hardware, Inc v Hargis Industries, Inc which held that a court should give preclusive effect to decisions made by the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) if the ordinary elements of issue preclusion are met. Although the particular issue which was addressed in the B&B Hardware case was whether a TTAB decision should have a preclusive effect in the context of a likelihood of confusion analysis, a recent district court decision indicates that the courts will apply the holding in B&B Hardware in other contexts.

Taking into account the benefits of test data protection, several Latin American countries have integrated proper data protection measures into their national legislation.

The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council of China has recently released the latest draft of the amended Patent Law on its website for public opinions (the 2015.12 draft).

Indonesia has an unwelcome reputation as a haven for copyright piracy. But Prudence Jahja and Andrew Diamond say recent initiatives promise to change that