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The Australian Competition Review Panel (the Harper Review) has recently released its draft report targeting intellectual property.

A Belgian far-right political party used a highly appreciated trademark of Belgian Trappist beer without the owner's consent. They used it during their pre-electoral campaign in a slogan, on flyers and on Twitter.

China Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently released its proposal for public comments titled Interpretations of the Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Patent Infringement Cases II. It is a further development of the SPC's judicial interpretation on the trial of patent infringement cases. The first part of the interpretation has been implemented since January 1 2010, and has been an important source of authority for lower courts to deal with patent infringement cases. This second part covers more aspects of patent litigation and could have a significant impact on patent litigation practice.

On September 9 2014, the General Court of OHIM delivered a judgment (Case T-494/12) in an invalidity proceeding on a registered design for "cookies" showing a picture of the outer and inner appearance of a biscuit with a filling by a sectional plane.

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.

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

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.