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There are a range of legal and practical reasons for foreign trade mark owners to record licences of their registered Chinese trade marks with the China Trade Mark Office (TMO). But recent changes to both the Trade Mark Law (TML) and other regulations mean that licensors can now avoid the headaches of recordation in most circumstances.

Where a substance or composition is already known in the art, it may still be patentable under Section 3(4) of the German Patent Law for a specific new and inventive use in a method for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy. It was also decided by the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) that purpose-related product protection can be obtained for a use relating to a specific dosage instruction (BGH – Carvedilol II, BGH – Fettsäuren).

With the aim of reinforcing French national patents, France is contemplating (1) modifying the law concerning the national phase in France based on a PCT application and (2) introducing a national opposition. These changes are expected to be made in the near future (2015-16).

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 The 2009 Law repealed earlier trade mark law, under which trade marks were registered for indefinite terms.

In many countries in Latin America, the regulations which allow assuring the quality of pharmaceutical products have not kept pace with those implemented in countries with better health control.

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

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.

Singapore’s new Copyright Law provides a means for rights holders to secure an order to block access to flagrantly infringing websites. Yew Kuin Cheah and Malobika Banerji explain how it works and how it compares to site-blocking systems in other jurisdictions

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