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In Japan, very few cases are filed regarding biotechnology-based drugs. This is one of a few cases where a dispute arose among R&D partners regarding the development of antibody drugs.

On September 30 2014 it became possible to register shorter, more concise .nz domain names. Rather than registering anyname.co.nz, for example, you can now register anyname.nz.

On September 25 2014, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) was appointed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as an International Authority under the PCT. The appointment is expected to be effective by early 2015.

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).

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.

As part of our series of articles on the Unitary Patent and UPC, Adrian Tombling and Andrea Fleuchaus weigh up the factors to be considered when filing applications under the new system, and look at some hypothetical case studies

The question whether or not the subject matter of a claim is inventive, is routinely determined by the so-called problem-and-solution approach (PSA) before the European Patent Office. European case law further teaches that the discovery of an unrecognised problem may give rise to patentable subject matter even in the case where the claimed solution is retrospectively trivial and in itself obvious (see T 2/83). However, the absence of a hint that there might be a problem does not provide proof for the existence of an unrecognised problem (T 252/10).

The Swiss Federal Patent Court has allowed a facilitated recovery of illicit profits in favour of the owner of an infringed patent in a recent judgement.

If a hashtag is functioning as a trade mark, should you seek to register it? And what can you do if someone else is using your mark in a hashtag?

Malaysia's IP Marketplace was launched by the Malaysian Intellectual Property Office (MyIPO) on June 27 2014. Similar to the IP Marketplace in Brussels, the objective of the Malaysian IP Marketplace is to create a portal that allows IP owners to put their respective trade marks, copyright, patents and industrial designs up for sale or licensing. This allows both investors and entrepreneurs alike to begin to treat their IPRs as tangible assets, improve access to financing or create a portal for them to connect with potential partners for innovation projects.