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In Ava Ruha Corp d/b/a Mother's Market & Kitchen v Mother's Nutritional Center Inc, the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a precedential decision regarding a registrant's ability to assert a laches defence in a cancellation proceeding. The petitioner Ava Ruha, which owned a trade mark registration for the stylised mark, Mother's Market & Kitchen, had filed petitions to cancel trade mark registrations owned by the respondent for the marks, Mother's (stylized) and Mother's Nutritional Center, on the grounds of likelihood of confusion, fraud and dilution. In its answer, the respondent asserted the affirmative defence of laches; and the parties subsequently filed cross-motions for summary judgment on the laches issue.

A proposal to consider plain packaging for tobacco products was raised in Malaysia at the International Nicotine Addiction Conference in Kuala Lumpur on April 23 and 24 2015.

Publication of design patent applications under the Hague Agreement for the Registration of Industrial Designs increases the value of provisional rights in the United States, as Brent M Dougal explains

The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal has held that patents on plants produced by essentially biological process are not excluded from patentability. But Claudia E Unsin and Joseph P Taormino say this is not the end of the debate over the use of patented material by plant breeders

The new office in Western Australia will be led by Mary Turonek

After over six years of review, and 10 days of high-level delegation meetings, the Lisbon Union members have finally adopted a new treaty that will cover geographical indications (GIs) and open up membership to intergovernmental organisations

A dispute between DC Comics and Rihanna over the name Robyn, Lycos putting its patent portfolio up for sale, Rockstar objecting to a BBC film about it, a copyright case over the song Happy Birthday to You, and Alibaba being sued by the owner of Gucci were in the IP headlines in the past week

In the second part of his post on the UPC, Tom Carver asks whether arbitration will be an attractive option once the new court system comes into effect

The USPTO has released a final rule containing amendments to the regulations for Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. These include increasing the page limits for the petitioner’s reply brief and the patent owner’s motion to amend

The Coalition for Affordable Drugs has filed an inter partes review petition challenging a patent for Pozen’s Vimovo drug, which Horizon Pharma holds the rights to in the US