Search results for

In Lupin Limited v Johnson and Johnson and Shakti Bhog Foods Limited v Parle Products Pvt Ltd, the Full Bench of the Bombay High Court, in a reference made to it on the question of law as to whether the court can go into the validity of the registered trade mark at an interlocutory stage in an infringement suit, has held that there is no bar to the jurisdiction and power of a civil court to consider the challenge to the validity of the trade mark at the interlocutory stage by way of prima facie findings.

The procedure of patent abandonment has been debated among IP attorneys, the Patent Office and the Ministry of Finance in the past few years.

In recent New Zealand cases, there are interesting insights into protecting secondary marks, and how the courts respond when a mark has generally been used in conjunction with another mark.

Trade marks numbers 381529 and 281919 are for versions of a word trade mark Black Russian. An interested person filed an appeal against the registrations. The Patent Office accepted the appeal, stating that the disputed designation in regard to the goods cocktails in class 33 is of descriptive character and is a kind of goods because it reproduces the name of an alcoholic drink of a certain composition with a long history.

In order to promote a culture of fair competition in the region, ASEAN member states have committed to adopt in their own jurisdictions by 2015 competition law and policy, under the ASEAN Economic Community's (AEC) Blueprint. In his first state of the nation address in 2010, Philippine president Benigno Aquino III made the promulgation of an antitrust law a priority in his administration to ensure that the market is fair for all, allowing "small and medium scale enterprises to participate in the growth of our economy".

A dispute may arise if a distribution agreement does not include a clause relating to the disposition of inventory after termination of the agreement.

A recent manpower survey by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) revealed that in line with its goal of becoming a Global IP Hub in Asia, Singapore's IP activities have boosted high valued-added jobs for the nation's workforce. The survey was commissioned in July 2014 and sent to 10,000 companies across 17 industry clusters that had relevance to IP, such as general manufacturing, engineering and food and beverage services. The objective of the survey was to analyse the contributions of key industries to Singapore's economy, and identify ways to develop these sectors.

Over the past 20 years since its enactment, the Thai Copyright Act BE 2537 (AD 1994) has remained unchanged, despite numerous attempts by legislators to modernise the law. As a result, Thailand's copyright law is out of date, and legal measures to combat piracy are inadequate.

China's trade mark authorities use a subclass system, often rigidly applied, in a bid to increase consistency and efficiency at the world's busiest trade mark office. Rachel Tan and Amanda Yang examine the challenges the system poses to applicants and ways to adapt

Third party observations are increasingly being used to challenge patent applications before they get to grant. Will Nieuwenhuys and James Shearman look at how organisations can take advantage of the procedures at the EPO, UK IPO and WIPO