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An Australian Senate Committee had just one recommendation at the end of an exhaustive report into a Bill to ban gene patents: do not pass this Bill

Members of collecting societies across Europe are heading to Luxembourg this week to tell Europe’s General Court why they should not be forced to offer cross-border services for collecting and distributing royalties for music

Jim Pooley, deputy director general for innovation and technology at WIPO, picks apart the PCT numbers with Simon Crompton

The biggest PCT firms in the world revealed

Ken Nishida has worked at Hitachi for 20 years and has specialised in managing the company’s websites since 1995. He is responsible for planning and managing internet and domain strategies, and oversees production and website design. Nishida previously managed media advertising departments that were responsible for events and exhibitions, after he had worked in sales promotion in the IT department for four years. While most brand owners have remained silent about applying for gTLD, electronics company Hitachi is excited by the prospect of having a .brand domain. "We think .hitachi is an effective way to improve our brand value. This is an innovative movement in the world of the internet," Ken Nishida of Hitachi told Managing IP.

The BBC is taking legal action in Italy to prevent a rival version of its hit show Strictly Come Dancing from being shown by Silvio Berlusconi’s television network Mediaset

Obtaining a US trade mark registration for a mark does not, by itself, confer rights in perpetuity. Rather, there are certain requirements that a trade mark owner must adhere to in order to preserve rights in and to a registered mark. The most simple of those requirements is (with certain exceptions) the obligation to continue to use the mark in commerce in connection with the goods or services identified in the registration.

According to Article 67.1.1 of the Patent Law, the Intellectual Property Office may, at the request of any person or ex officio, cancel a patent granted to an invention found to be in violation of the relevant provisions of the Patent Law. Furthermore, according to Article 31.1 of the same law, where two or more applications are filed for the same invention, only the person who first filed the application shall be granted a patent.

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has, upon appeal, held the mark Gap registrable as a trade mark for goods in class 28 (essentially toys and pet toys).

During the past two years, the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (IMPI) has established a new criterion on its practice for filling divisional applications due to a unity of invention requirement during substantive examination.