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The word Bourbon has a broader application than you might think. It is not always connected with Bourbon County in Kentucky or, going deeper into the past, the royal family in France. The word Bourbon has also always been used to designate other goods. So much so that it has led to conflicts in the market. One recent conflict came up in the case Ipanema Bourbon v Caffe Bourbon in 2010.

On July 13 2012, the Delhi High Court delivered two contrasting judgements on the interpretation of the IPR (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules 2007, which empower the Customs authorities to suspend the clearance of goods alleged to be infringing IP rights upon receiving an appropriate written notice, from the right holder, requesting it.

For the past few months, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and several members of the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI) have been working towards the creation of a trade mark examiners' manual.

Earlier this month, Judge Richard Posner of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned a preliminary injunction issued by the district court against social video bookmarking site MyVidster. Pornographic video producer Flava Works had claimed that MyVidster was infringing its copyrighted content by providing links to illegal copies. "The infringers are the uploaders of copyrighted work," Posner concluded in MyVidster v Gunter. "There is no evidence that MyVidster is encouraging them, which would make it a contributory infringer." But he noted that if MyVidster had invited users to post copyrighted videos without authorisation, it would be liable for inducing infringement.

Lynne Beresford, the former USPTO commissioner of trade marks, has joined the board of advisers of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI). Beresford has expertise in domestic and international trade mark law. She began working at the USPTO in 1979 as a trade mark examiner and retired as commissioner of trade marks in 2010.

The Australian government has asked our Productivity Commission to conduct an extensive review of the compulsory licensing regime of the Patents Act.

The Enlarged Board of the EPO recently issued decision G1/10, which concerned corrections in patent after grant.

Spa Monopole, the owner of the reputed mineral water trade mark Spa in the Benelux successfully opposed the Community trade mark (CTM) application Nativa Spa O Boticario for perfumery and cosmetics recently.

The Court of Justice of the EU recently answered the prejudicial questions relating to cross-border injunction referred to it by the Dutch Court of the Hague.

In a landmark judgment, LB Confectionary v QAF, the Federal Court in Malaysia ruled on a dispute involving rights over use of the trade mark Squiggles.