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The president of the EPO submitted on March 6 2015 to the Administrative Council a proposal for a structural reform of the EPO Boards of Appeal. The proposal has been submitted in continuation of decision R 19/12 of April 25 2014 on which we have previously reported, a decision that highlighted a constitutional imperfection of the European patent system with regard to the independence of the Boards of Appeal from the management of the EPO.

Last month Utynam attended Managing IP’s two IP in Asia Forums in London and Munich, and he’s happy to share some of the valuable lessons he learned.

The Taiwan IP Court has been in operation for almost seven years since its establishment in July 2008. At its inception, it was expected that this special court would provide a professional and efficient system of adjudicating IP-related disputes in Taiwan.

Hsu Wei-Fu of MediaTek speaks to Managing IP about why trade secret protection is so important for his industry and how he helped to usher in Taiwan’s trade secrets law

In ZITRO IP Sàrl v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) (case T-665/13, January 29, 2015), the General Court agreed with the Board of Appeal of OHIM that the figurative mark Spin Bingo was not similar to the earlier Community word mark Zitro Spin Bingo, thus, rejecting the opposition under Article 42(5) Community Trademark Regulation 207/2009 (CTMR).

Over 200 years Vlisco, a Dutch company, designed spectacular patterns which are used on fabrics and in fashion accessories. These fabulous colourful fabrics are designed at its head office in the Netherlands and are very popular in Africa, but are also sold in Europe. Likewise, a fashion label of an Italian-Haitian fashion designer, SJ, has gained fame with its remarkable, colourful and richly decorated fabric patterns. Its collection is shown on the catwalk of Milan fashion week and sold via its website in which reference is made to several retail outlets.

The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) is the authority entitled to decide cancellation and infringement actions related to patents (which is the topic of this article).

Trade marks are attributes of goods and services. Unfortunately, there is a specific service which none can avoid: funeral service.

May is 'New Zealand Music Month'. In recognition of this and World IP Day, the New Zealand IP community recently came together with some well-known musicians to discuss copyright issues in music, both here and abroad. The discussions offered both lawyers' and musicians' views on copyright issues in music, including royalties, inspiration versus copying, and the state of the music industry.

The Supreme Court has given a new and unique ruling on the interpretation of product-by-process (PBP) claims.