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  • Strange overtones sometimes accompany intellectual property. Usually businesses register trade marks to promote their goods. In this case a Russian company filed a trade mark application for a trade mark Kennedy's Assassin in class 41 (production and distribution of motion pictures).
  • New Zealand's new Patents Act 2013 will come into force on or before September 13 2014. The main changes include tougher examination of patent applications, timing and deadlines, subject matter exclusions and divisional applications.
  • Where there are commercial requirements for obtaining early grant of a patent in multiple jurisdictions, filing first in Singapore can be considered as part of a global filing strategy.
  • Inventors and authors who seek protection of their intellectual property should be made aware of misleading practices resulting from the provision of non-official titles of IP protection.
  • Within the EU the attack on a trade mark on the basis of a company name is often problematic with regard to proofs both against national trade marks and EU trade marks. According to the EU Trade Marks Directive Article 4.4 (b) a member state may provide for such action. If it does this Article foresees three cumulative conditions:
  • Following the recent amendments to the PRC Trade Mark Law that took effect on May 1 2014, China issued revised Well-Known Mark Recognition and Protection Provisions in early July 2014, with effect from August 2 2014, that supersede the existing provisions from 2003.
  • On July 16, China Supreme People's Court (SPC) released its amendment proposal for public comments, titled "Amendment of the Judiciary Interpretation – Certain Provisions on Issues Concerning Application of Law in Trying Cases Involving Patent Disputes". The current Judiciary Interpretation is one of the key authorities for Chinese courts to handle patent infringement cases. It has been in effect since 2001 and has had some minor changes over the years.
  • The distinctiveness of a trade mark is appreciated from a negative point of view, that is to say the term must not be exclusively the generic or usual designation of a product.
  • In the Apple v Samsung litigation in Japan, on May 16 2014, the Grand Panel of the IP High Court affirmed the Tokyo District Court decision regarding an injunction and held that Samsung did not have a right to seek an injunction against Apple Japan regarding the patent with FRAND declaration.
  • In its recent judgment, the Bombay High Court dismissed Bayer's appeal against the grant of a compulsory license (CL) to Natco, a generic manufacturer, for its Indian patent on an anti-cancer drug called Nexavar. This order of the Bombay High Court is round three in the litigation between Bayer & Natco. The first round was before the Controller General (CG) of Patents and the second round was before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).