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Katrina Burchell and Célia Ullmann share their views on the struggles companies face in organising their brand protection internal structure, budgets and reporting lines

Among Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, one of the recent events regarding IP which deserves to be highlighted is the approval, in Mozambique, of the new Industrial Property Code (IPC) by Decree number 47/2015, published in the Boletim da República (Official Gazette) of December 31 2015, which comes into effect 90 days after its publication.

In 2012, Michael Dewayne Brown, an American citizen, sued for copyright infringement American English Skills Development Center (AESDCI) and its shareholders Armilyn MorilloBujis, et al, for their unauthorised copying, use, reproduction and obtaining copyright registration in the name of AESDCI, of his work "Conversational English Study Guide (First Edition)", of which Brown claimed to be the creator and author.

According to the Mexican Industrial Property Law (IPL) the following types of pharmaceutical-related claims are exceptions to patentability:

Indonesian IP laws have always required IP rights licences in Indonesia to be recorded at the Intellectual Property Office. This requirement is set out on the Copyright Law, Patent Law, Trade Mark Law, Industrial Design Law, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits Law and Trade Secrets Law. However, such recordal mechanism has not been carried out due to the lack of implementing regulation, even though the legal consequence is that, if an IP licence is not recorded, it would not be binding on any third parties.

In the court decision X ZR 111/13 – Telekommunikationsverbindung, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) discussed the flexibility that the parties have to amend the issues of dispute in second instance nullity proceedings. The case being considered relates to appeal proceedings before the German Federal Court of Justice reviewing the first instance decision in terms of the revocation of a patent by the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG).

On February 25 2016, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council released a draft version of an amended Anti-Unfair Competition Law (draft AUCL) for public comment.

The Draft Amendment to Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL) has long been awaited and discussion on its proposed revisions is now heating up. Drafted by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) and released by State Council for public opinion until March 25 2016, this Draft Amendment has substantially revised 30 of the 33 provisions and touched on a wide range of issues, including commercial bribery, trade dress, trade secrets, antitrust, administrative enforcement and compensation thresholds.

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.