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  • PTAB observers have reacted to USPTO’s extensive set of proposed rule changes, noting patent owners will benefit from proposals such as allowing testimonial evidence in their preliminary response. The USPTO has followed up the rule changes by also suggesting a pilot programme of having a single judge determine whether to institute an IPR
  • The IP legal market is changing. In-house counsel want more for less, technology is commoditising work processes and the partnership track is becoming less attractive to growing numbers of lawyers. Emma Barraclough considers the influences that are reshaping the market. Plus: those shaping the changes make their predictions for the future
  • How might your work change in the next 10 years? Or 20 years? With daily deadlines and clamorous clients, most IP practitioners probably don’t have the luxury to predict the future. But maybe that’s exactly what you should be doing
  • With a large portfolio, it can be hard to find the jewels. Terry Ludlow provides six strategies for determining patent value and a six-point plan for finding potentially valuable patents
  • How well do brand owners do in communicating about trade marks? Zeeger Vink summarises the findings of a recent study by international masters students at SciencesPo
  • A recent decision in a dispute between Aldi and Dunnes Stores suggests that, despite the pointers from the CJEU, comparative advertising is a dangerous game to play in Ireland. Alistair Payne explains
  • Anja Lunze and Jan Phillip Rektorschek examine strategies for litigating at the Unified Patent Court in the light of the Preparatory Committee’s recently published draft proposal for the rules on court fees and recoverable costs
  • India and Brazil have a rich bio-diversity. In an attempt to conserve the rich biological diversity and to ensure the sustainable use of the biological resources with adequate benefit sharing arising out of the exploitation of the biological resources, both countries enacted national laws following the UN Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992.
  • On July 21 2015, President Benigno S Aquino III signed into law Republic Act No 10667 known as the Philippine Competition Act which took effect on August 8. Its salient points are summarised here.
  • As anticipated in previous articles, the new Civil and Commercial Argentine Code came into effect on August 1 2015, and consequently both the former Civil and Commercial codes were abrogated. Among the regulations that are of interest in our area, we can mention the following: