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The statutory requirement in Pakistan patent law that "claim or claims of a complete specification shall relate to a single invention" implies that there may be two inventions housed in one specification but the claims must be directed to one invention only.

Prudence Jahja and Andrew Diamond explain the IP challenges facing Indonesia as it prepares to join the ASEAN Economic Community

Practical advice from Jo Bixby of Davenport Lyons

On February 28 2013, President Benigno Aquino signed into law Republic Act 10372, amending certain provisions of the Intellectual Property Code. Act 10372 takes effect on March 22 2013 or 15 days after its publication date of March 7 2013. Some of the major amendments to the IP Code are as follows:

Today’s blog looks at AstraZeneca’s Crestor settlement and today’s Supreme Court hearing on reverse payments, the harmonisation of Google’s AdWords policy and a patent on twitter. We also cast a critical eye over the latest EU Action Plan

A Russian applicant obtained a trade mark registration with priority of November 24 2010 for goods in class 9 and services in classes 35, 37, 40, 41. The trade mark includes a word element in Cyrilic, рай для фотографа, which means "photographer's paradise".

The Patents County Court in London has become a competitive venue for all types of IP and for multi-jurisdictional cases. Simon Crompton explains how IP owners should approach cases and how they should select counsel

In most jurisdictions, a licensee cannot claim back royalties if the patent is revoked. But there are subtleties in France and Germany, and antitrust issues to consider. Patrick Duxbury, Bob Sadler, Michael Schneider and Philippe Rousseau explain

At the India IP and Innovation Forum last month, compulsory licences understandably took centre stage. But there were also IP strategies by India companies looking abroad, Peter Leung reports

Canada's Minister of Industry, Christian Paradis, has introduced legislation that would crack down on counterfeits, redefine the term trade mark and allow for so-called divisional trade mark applications. Bill C-56 had its first reading in the House of Commons last month. Among the most significant changes it proposes is a new definition of a trade mark that would recognise non-traditional marks, including colour, smell, taste and texture marks, as well as confirm the registrability of sound and hologram marks.