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Article 4 of the Indonesian Trade Mark Law stipulates that a mark shall not be registered on the basis of an application filed by an applicant who does not have good faith. In its elucidation, it is explained that an applicant having good faith is an applicant that files their mark in an honest and proper way without any intention to imitate, to manipulate or to improperly join a well-known mark owned by another party in order to benefit from the situation that may cause loss to the trade mark owner's side, or create unfair competition, confusing and misleading the consumers.

Major updates have recently been made to Thailand's Customs laws and procedures regarding transit of goods through Thailand and transshipment. In addition, brand owners must now record their marks to comply with the Royal Thai Customs Department's new Customs recordation procedures.

Omnibus claims are added to patents in some jurisdictions as a catch all warning to potential infringers. They generally take the form of "the product/method substantially as described with reference to the drawings and/or examples".

The Philippine Foreign Investments Act (RA 7042), as amended, has a negative list defining areas or activities open to foreign investors and/or reserved to Filipino nationals. Various foreign chambers have asked for the opening of more activities to foreigners to attract foreign investment. On May 29 2015, the president of the Philippines issued Executive Order Number 184 promulgating the tenth Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL). The most significant change in this list is the relaxation of the list of professions that were otherwise only open to Filipino citizens. The 10th FINL retains only the following professions reserved to Filipino citizens: (1) pharmacy; (2) radiologic and x-ray technology; (3) criminology; (4) forestry; and (5) law.

The Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s finding of non-infringement for trade marked goods on search results on Amazon.com, reviving the theory of “initial interest confusion”

The latest US patent case filing figures from Lex Machina show a sharp increase in May and June, making filing in the second quarter of this year the highest ever observed

The US Senate has approved Kara Stoll’s nomination as a circuit judge for the Federal Circuit, taking the spot vacated by Randall Rader last year and bringing the number of circuit judges that are in their 40s to four

Nathan Kelley, who was previously solicitor of the USPTO, has been named as the acting chief judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

The most recent development in the Washington Redskins trade mark saga raises an interesting constitutional question: who is engaging in speech when a mark is registered?

We’re delighted to announce our first Luxury Brand & Retail Forum, which will be held in London in September this year