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Many practitioners outside Germany have concerns about bifurcation. Adam Cooke considers how it will work in practice in the UPC

Analysis of Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions using the Docket Navigator database reveals the top petitioners, patent owners, law firms and lawyers during 2014

The eligibility criteria for obtaining supplementary protection certificates has been the subject of much debate since the SPC Regulation was introduced in 1992. Laura Reynolds finds some guidance in the latest rulings from the CJEU

The CJEU gave 14 trade mark judgments last year, with cases including the Apple Store, the Tripp-Trapp chair and Golden Balls. Alice Stagg identifies some trends from the decisions

On December 18 2014 the new Industrial Property Law, Number 23-13, which amends the existing act, Number 17/97, came into force in Morocco. There is a lot of substance in the new law; below is a summary of the most noteworthy changes.

Patent litigation in India is on the increase and there is good news for pharmaceutical patentees. In three different cases, with three different factual scenarios, both Indian and foreign pharmaceutical patentees managed to score victories against generics and the Indian government.

The High Court has recently clarified the operation of the extension of time provisions insofar as they relate to lodgement of a request for an extension of patent term for a pharmaceutical patent.

On January 20 , the General Court issued a decision in respect of a Community design registration for a heat exchanger. This heat exchanger to which the contested design was applied was presented as a part of a complex product, namely a household boiler. A direct competitor of the applicant filed a claim with OHIM to declare the design invalid, on the ground that the design as registered did not remain visible after its installation in the boiler, and therefore did not constitute a valid design in the sense of the Regulation.

In the case of Ricardo Honrado v GMA Network Films, docketed as GR No 204702, the Supreme Court of the Philippines in its decision dated January 14 2015, showed the need for clearer language in drafting licensing agreements.

As reported in our article in July 2014, the interim decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of April 25 2014 in case R 19/12 has highlighted a statutory imperfection of the patent system in Europe. More specifically, it follows from the decision that the judicial independence of the Boards of Appeal which follows from Article 23 EPC may not be reconcilable with the organisational ties of the vice president of the Boards of Appeal to the management of the EPO.