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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.

Our third International Women’s Leadership Forum was held last month. How can the world of IP do more for women?

A monthly column devoted to IP curiosities and controversies, named in honour of John of Utynam

On February 2 2015, the Ho Chi Minh City Court held a public trial in a dispute arising out of an infringement of an agrochemical patent. The trial attracted significant attention from IP practitioners as it was among the first patent litigation cases ever tried in the Vietnamese courts. Additionally, the case was apparently the first time a foreign patentee had ever sought to enforce its patent rights before Vietnamese courts. The ruling in the case was to be a litmus test for Vietnam's environment of patent enforcement.

In its decision "Farbversorgungssystem" (X ZR 130/10) the Federal Supreme Court discussed the requirements for applying a technical solution generally known to the person skilled in the art but not disclosed in conjunction with the specific application in question to a prior art teaching in the assessment of inventive step.

In the commercial and business fields, it is common to use expressions such as corporate name, trade name and designation almost indistinctively. However, these expressions must be clearly specified and distinguished.

Many patent specialists fear the prospect of bifurcation of cases in the Unified Patent Court. But Gottfried Schüll and Arwed Burrichter argue that the German-style system should be embraced

Peter Leung visited Beijing’s new IP Court and interviewed Judge Chen Jinchuan, vice president of the Court, about its aims, its first cases and why he listens to French radio every morning. Plus: more news and analysis on China’s new IP Courts

In-house counsel say they want more information on the Unitary Patent and UPC. Here’s some of our recent coverage – and a glimpse at what we have planned

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