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Japan introduces non-traditional trade marks

Last month, Japan introduced sound, motion, colour per se, holograms and position marks. Kensaku Takase and Mariko Nakayama investigate who will be using them, and what benefits they provide

Managing IP Correspondent, April 24 2015

Effective brand enforcement in new gTLDs

More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and Griffin M Barnett

Managing IP Correspondent, April 24 2015

Federal Circuit, Canada copyright, Katy Perry, Twitter, John Oliver – the week in IP

The Federal Circuit saying squashing words together in briefs is not a way to keep below word limits, Canada intending to increase the term of copyright, Katy Perry’s attempts to register trade marks, John Oliver’s take on patent trolls, and Twitter’s trade mark applications were in the IP headlines this week

April 23 2015

China seeks public comment on draft revision to Patent Law

China’s newest draft revision to the Patent Law brings a raft of changes, including provisions to encourage patent licensing as well as strengthen design patent protection

April 22 2015

Noerr hires IP partner in Munich

Christoph Rieken will join law firm Noerr on May 1. He was formerly head of the German IP practice at Ashurst

Managing IP Correspondent, April 22 2015

Is the prohibition on disparaging marks unconstitutional?

The Federal Circuit affirmed the USPTO’s rejection of an application for the The Slants mark on the grounds that the term was disparaging to Asians. After drafting the court’s opinion, Judge Kimberly Moore penned an “additional views” section questioning the constitutionality of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act

April 22 2015

EU trade mark reform at a glance

The so-called trilogue comprising the European Parliament, Commission and Council have agreed a deal on EU trade mark reform. But with details still sketchy, Managing IP analyses what is clear and what is still to be revealed

April 22 2015

EU trade mark deal struck, so what happens now?

Finally, after five years of debate, there is an agreement on reform to the EU Trade Marks Directive and CTM Regulation. While there is a cautious welcome for what has been agreed, we are likely to enter a new period of adaptation and scrutiny

April 21 2015

Bass and Spangenberg file sixth IPR petition, targeting Pharmacyclics

The Coalition for Affordable Drugs has filed another inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in the latest move by Kyle Bass and Erich Spangenberg to target pharmaceutical companies’ patents

April 21 2015

Argentina: Benefits of test data protection

In Argentina, legislation that regulates the protection of test data (Law 24,766 Confidentiality Law, Executive Order 150/92) does not provide adequate test data protection to pharmaceutical specialities as required in Section 39.3 of the TRIPs Agreement, because it allows third-party reliance on information concerning the safety and efficacy of a product – reliance that is not authorised by the originator of the data.

Managing IP Correspondent, April 21 2015

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