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In a recent landmark judgment, Tech Plus Media Private Ltd v Jyoti Janda & Ors dated September 29 2014, the Delhi High Court laid down new law on the protection of databases under copyright law. The facts of the cases involved an industry publication house, in the sphere of information technology, which claimed copyright protection over its database, which was basically a compilation of existing customers, potential customers and their contact points. The suit was instituted against former employees who had founded a competing industry publication house on the grounds that they infringed the copyright of the plaintiff by using its databases, for the purposes of their new business.

The current Burundi Industrial Property Law came into force on July 28 2009 (the effective date). Trade mark registrations made after the effective date have 10-year terms from the filing date, indefinitely renewable for like terms. The 2009 Law repealed earlier trade mark law, under which trade marks were registered for indefinite terms.

The interplay between patents essential to telecommunication standards and anti-monopoly concerns has turned the spotlight on how competition law will apply to IP protection. As governments in Asia begin to tackle these issues, it is becoming clear that there will be an impact on all major forms of IP and across a wide range of industries. Peter Leung reports

Information about people is essential for modern businesses. Eduardo Ustaran explains why it should be treated as an asset and discusses the value of privacy compliance

In Taiwan, a divisional application can be filed any time during the pendency of the parent application. However, unlike other countries where the deadline for filing divisional/continuation applications is before grant or abandonment of the parent application, the window for filing a divisional application in Taiwan is linked to the date of the applicant's receipt of the final office action or notice of allowance and varies with the stage of examination.

Elle is a familiar trade mark, perhaps even to those who do not closely follow fashion trends. It has been owned by Hachette Filipacchi Presse since 1987 (trade mark certificate 83647 in respect of goods in Class 16 ICGS – see image).

Víctor Garrido of Dumont Bergman Bider & Co explores patent utility issues in Mexico within the context of global harmonisation

Alejandro Luna of Olivares discusses the implications of Mexico joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, such as major reforms in the life-sciences sector

Saúl Santoyo Orozco and Jose Luis Ramos-Zurita of Uhthoff describe what recent changes have been made to the way Mexico enforces IP rights at its borders, and what more needs to be done

Octavio Espejo and Héctor Chagoya of Becerril Coca & Becerril offer a glimpse of the patentability of computer-implemented inventions under Mexican practice