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  • The Supreme Court recently issued a judgment in a trade mark and company name infringement action where both parties were using and had registered trade marks and company names with the main distinctive element Arthur or Arthur's.
  • In the case In re St Helena Hospital, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently expanded the so-called "something more" standard for the relatedness of goods and services in analysing whether a likelihood of confusion existed between two marks.
  • A number of Greek collecting societies managing copyrights and related rights filed preliminary injunction actions against internet service providers (ISPs) in 2014 before the Civil Court of Athens. These requested the defendants to take the appropriate technological or other measures, the implementation of which will make it unfeasible – impossible for their subscribers – to visit specific named websites, the content of which infringes the creators' copyrights.
  • Cricket fans from around the world are about to feast themselves on the bowling and batting of their favourite teams as the 20th ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 takes place in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Where there are doubts as to the validity of a patent, a patent invalidation action may be filed with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) to request revocation of the patent, or patent invalidity may be used as a defence in infringement litigation to assert non-infringement.
  • At the beginning of this year, Indonesia has been coloured by an issue covered by various Indonesian media regarding a new conflict over the domain name HYPERLINK "http://www.bmw.id" \h www.bmw.id. The conflict is between an Indonesian national, Benny Muliawan, and the well-known automotive company, Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).
  • Taiwan’s IP Police was founded in 2003 and has three companies with 220 officers in total, handling about 2,000 cases a year. Peter Leung spoke to the captain of the Taipei company, Wei-Hsu Chen
  • Recently, the Mexican Trade Mark Office found that a Mexican company had infringed the image of a Mexican actor. However, the use was found in an advertisement for a hairstyling product in a store in Puerto Rico. The authority sustained that since the parties were both Mexican and the related product was made in and exported from Mexico, it has enough authority to sanction an infringement for the non-authorised use of the image for commercial purposes outside Mexico.
  • At last, the Trade Mark Act 2014 amendment, which will come into effect on April 1 2015, has introduced new kinds of trade marks such as colour marks and sound marks. In the United States, Christian Louboutin had filed a lawsuit against Yves Saint Laurent for an infringement of Louboutin's trade mark, consisting of a red, lacquered outsole on a high fashion woman's shoe. We may expect similar lawsuits in Japan in the near future.
  • The designation Terra Contes on application number 2012711660 with priority of April 4 2012 was filed in the name of a Russian company Trade House KODRU in respect of goods in class 33, alcoholic beverages.