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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.