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Issues surrounding second medical use patents and skinny labels present challenges throughout Europe. Selma Ünlü and Gülay Göksu of NSN Law Firm discuss how they are being approached in Turkey

Okan Çan, partner of Deris Attorney-at-law-Partnership, and Ulrich Weingarten, head of global intellectual property at chemical company DyStar, answer James Nurton’s questions about their successful patent enforcement campaign in Turkey

Scott A McKeown discusses three important Patent Trial and Appeal Board cases that addressed the important issue of estoppel, and looks ahead to this year with the Federal Circuit continuing to work through appeals and the Supreme Court set to rule on Cuozzo

Judges in China have expressed different views regarding whether a court in the place of receipt of goods has jurisdiction in patent infringement cases. Xiaolin Wang and Harlem Lu explain the issues

Cloud services make storing and accessing large amounts of information easier and cheaper. This gives in-house IP counsel the perfect opportunity to refresh their trade secrets strategy, argue Mark Ridgway and Annsley Merelle Ward

In Belgium, a patent is automatically granted, meaning the grant procedure does not involve a substantive examination of the application, with the provision that a search report has been issued.

In the past, end-users might use a remote control to store and manage relevant channel and TV programme information. The process, however, has become more burdensome due to the increasing number of TV channels and service providers. The information that end-users will have to manage by themselves has become voluminous and complicated.

According to a news release of the EPO issued in mid-January, the "comprehensive reforms undertaken at the EPO in recent years have translated into unprecedented increases in the performance of the Office, with significant improvements in productivity, timeliness and quality in 2015". According to the EPO, its 4,200 examiners accomplished a performance increase of 14% compared to 2014. Some 68,400 European patents were granted in 2015, compared to 64,600 in 2014. The proportion of applications being granted amounted to approximately 48%. Over 85% of European first filing applications received a search report within six months from filing.

As we have explained in previous briefings, the new Argentine Civil and Commercial Code contains several sections that refer, both directly and indirectly, to intellectual property matters.

Back in April 2015 we reported that one of the China antimonopoly agencies (SAIC) published the IP Misuse Rules, which became effective then. What followed after that surprised everyone. The other anti-monopoly agency (National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC), which was at the centre of the attention of the global IP/antitrust community for last couple of years due to its investigation into Qualcomm and InterDigital in China, announced in the summer that it was asked by the State Council to draft guidelines on IP misuse. NDRC issued a preliminary draft in October 2015 and issued an updated version in January.