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Google has revealed a new version of its patent searching tool, which the technology company says “has the power to improve patent quality”

The owner of a standard essential patent who seeks an injunction must have alerted the alleged infringer and made a “specific, written” licence offer specifying the royalty and the way it is to be calculated, the CJEU said in a case between Huawei and ZTE

With the PTAB soon to issue institution decisions on the controversial IPR petitions from the Coalition for Affordable Drugs and Ferro Ferrum Capital, patent owners have hit back through sanctions and additional discovery, and a complaint for attempted extortion

The newly promulgated rules improve China’s administrative patent enforcement regime, though there is concern that they are still too general to be effective

An analysis by Finnegan reveals that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board cancelled 446 instituted claims in the 36 final written decisions it issued in June, giving a higher-than-average claim cancellation rate for the month

Paul Keller has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in its New York office

Haynes and Boone has added Whitney Remily and John Bateman to its Hatch-Waxman/ANDA practice group

Baris Kalayci, Zeynep Seda Alhas and Ali Bozoglu examine a new approach to preventing the sale of smuggled products in the world’s second largest counterfeit economy

Education they say should start from the cradle and end in the grave. The thinking of the Indian IPR Think Tank, constituted by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, which is responsible for the formulation and administration of overall industrial policy in India as far as IPR education in India is concerned, seems to be in this direction. The first draft submitted by the Think Tank clearly states the need to "progressively introduce IP teaching in schools, colleges and other educational institutions as one of the steps in achieving the objective of Human Capital Development".

The Philippine Foreign Investments Act (RA 7042), as amended, has a negative list defining areas or activities open to foreign investors and/or reserved to Filipino nationals. Various foreign chambers have asked for the opening of more activities to foreigners to attract foreign investment. On May 29 2015, the president of the Philippines issued Executive Order Number 184 promulgating the tenth Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL). The most significant change in this list is the relaxation of the list of professions that were otherwise only open to Filipino citizens. The 10th FINL retains only the following professions reserved to Filipino citizens: (1) pharmacy; (2) radiologic and x-ray technology; (3) criminology; (4) forestry; and (5) law.