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According to the Mexican Industrial Property Law, legally organised associations or companies of producers, manufacturers, merchants or renderers of services may apply for the registration of a collective trade mark to distinguish the products or services of their members with respect to those of others from third parties. The law also states that collective trade marks shall be governed in the absence of special provisions, by those set forth in this Law for individual trade marks.

Ylva Skoglösa, Annika Unge Reis and Isabel Cantallops Fiol of Valea ask what the future holds for second medical use claims in Europe

Licences constitute the most common contractual negotiations (at a local, regional and international level) entered into by trade mark owners and involve a contractual mechanism by means of which the owner of a trade mark (licensor) acts jointly with other entrepreneurs (licensees) with the aim of extending the production and distribution of products or services identified with the corresponding trade mark.

The Swiss company Capri Sun owns an International registration (number 677879), also designating Benelux for a 3D mark representing a silver reflecting pouch meant as a container for liquid, such as fruit drinks, also known under the trade mark Capri-Sun (marketed as pictured).

In a first for Australia, a copyright owner has been successful in forcing an internet service provider (ISP) to hand over the contact details of internet account holders of about 4,700 IP addresses that have been identified as having been used to download pirate versions of the movie 'Dallas Buyers Club'.

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam

McDonald's opposed the trade mark McBerg for clothing et al in class 25, for services for education, entertainment et al in class 41 and for providing food and drinks, provision of accommodation in class 43. Likewise it opposed four other trade marks McMountain, McTyrol, McTirol (figurative) and McTirol (word) registered for the same goods and services. The opposition was based on several registered trade marks namely Mc (figurative), Ronald McDonald, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald Playland, McBurger, MacSki (figurative) and McKids. The first five trade marks are registered in classes 41 and 42 (among others), the last one only in class 25.

China's State Administrations for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) released the long-awaited Rules on the Prohibition of Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights for the Purpose of Eliminating or Restricting Competition on April 7 2015, which will become effective as of August 1 2015. The IPR Abuse Rules deal with manifold issues such as the determination of patent holder's market dominance, compulsory licensing, standard essential patents (SEPs) and safe harbour in horizontal and vertical agreements settings.

Recently video technology has advanced notably. For example, new style televisions incorporating new video technology such as 3D TV (televisions having the function of displaying stereoscopic video images) or 4K TV and 8K TV (televisions having the function of displaying video images at 4K or 8K resolution) have been introduced one after another.

On January 6 2006 a Benelux trade mark application for the word "ius" was filed for services in classes 35 and 42. The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property refused the mark for lack of distinctive character, arguing that "the sign 'ius' (Latin for law) is descriptive for the services in classes 35 and 42 relating to legal issues". Even though counter arguments were filed with the Benelux Office, the refusal of the mark became final and an appeal with the Court of Appeal Brussels was filed. In 2009, the Court of Appeal ordered that the Benelux application for ius should be registered. This decision was cancelled by the Cassation Court and returned to the Court of Appeal Brussels.