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In Lupin Limited v Johnson and Johnson and Shakti Bhog Foods Limited v Parle Products Pvt Ltd, the Full Bench of the Bombay High Court, in a reference made to it on the question of law as to whether the court can go into the validity of the registered trade mark at an interlocutory stage in an infringement suit, has held that there is no bar to the jurisdiction and power of a civil court to consider the challenge to the validity of the trade mark at the interlocutory stage by way of prima facie findings.

Although second medical use patents are allowed and granted in Mexico, achieving the exclusive exploitation derived from this protection by the owner or licensee presents several challenges. As in other countries, there is legal uncertainty regarding how the owner can actually show infringement.

In a decision of March 17 2015, the Court of Appeal in the Hague confirmed the judgment of July 31 2013 of the first instance court in invalidating the Netherlands part of European patent EP 1224954 with respect to a fire extinguishing post (bluspost in Dutch). This judgment under appeal was based on a claim filed by the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (RWS) in the Netherlands. In the judgment, the Netherlands part of the patent was invalidated among other reasons for lack of novelty in view of a memo of the RWS as sent to one of the competitors of the patent owner Doebros.

Trade marks numbers 381529 and 281919 are for versions of a word trade mark Black Russian. An interested person filed an appeal against the registrations. The Patent Office accepted the appeal, stating that the disputed designation in regard to the goods cocktails in class 33 is of descriptive character and is a kind of goods because it reproduces the name of an alcoholic drink of a certain composition with a long history.

A dispute may arise if a distribution agreement does not include a clause relating to the disposition of inventory after termination of the agreement.

Over the past 20 years since its enactment, the Thai Copyright Act BE 2537 (AD 1994) has remained unchanged, despite numerous attempts by legislators to modernise the law. As a result, Thailand's copyright law is out of date, and legal measures to combat piracy are inadequate.

A recent manpower survey by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) revealed that in line with its goal of becoming a Global IP Hub in Asia, Singapore's IP activities have boosted high valued-added jobs for the nation's workforce. The survey was commissioned in July 2014 and sent to 10,000 companies across 17 industry clusters that had relevance to IP, such as general manufacturing, engineering and food and beverage services. The objective of the survey was to analyse the contributions of key industries to Singapore's economy, and identify ways to develop these sectors.

A new law concerning protection for geographical indications and local and regional authorities, as well as the EU trade mark package, will give INPI more powers. Marie-Aimée de Dampierre explains why

Agent benchmarking can cut the cost of securing trade mark and patent protection around the world. Volker Spitz and John Asquith explain what it is, and how to do it

Are you prepared for Europe’s patent revolution? Anthony C Tridico, Martin D Hyden and Leythem A Wall highlight the issues to think about now