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On March 23 2010, the president of the Philippines signed into law Republic Act No 10055 known as the Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009. Published on April 23 2010, this law takes effect after 15 days. It provides the framework and support system for the ownership, management, use and commercialisation of intellectual property generated from government funded researches. This law was the brainchild of Estrella Alabastro of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and was inspired by the Bayh-Dole Act of the USA. She stated in the DOST Digest: "For the longest time, we rely mostly on breakthroughs from the outside, while our local technologies generated through public funds remain untapped or archived in laboratories around the country. Hence, this is a significant break for us to roll this out to the market and be availed of by the public." Some of the salient points of this law are:

The revised Korean Trade Mark Act (KTA) will come into effect from July 27 2010. The main contents of the revision are:

A new law regulating the marketing of textile, leather and footwear goods – known as the Reguzzoni-Versace Law – was published in the Official Gazette on April 21 2010 and will enter into force on October 1 2010. This new provision creates a system of obligatory labelling for goods in the textile, leather and footwear sectors.

Patent applications that become provisionally abandoned, for example due to failure to pay a maintenance fee or respond to a requisition, can be reinstated in Canada. However, as a recent decision illustrates, all of the requirements for reinstatement must be carefully observed; otherwise, the patent applications can become irrevocably abandoned.

The recent case of Health World Ltd v Shin-Sun Australia Pty Ltd [2010] HCA 13 has expanded who can remove trade marks under the Australian system.

As IP litigation increases, Nandana Indananda and Suebsiri Taweepon of Tilleke & Gibbins discuss enforcement in Thailand’s IP&IT Court, focusing on preliminary injunctions and Anton Piller orders

The food and crafts of south-east Asia are famous across the world. Peter Ollier spoke with Stephane Passeri of the ASEAN Project on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III) about how these products are being registered as geographical indications

On January 1 2011 Switzerland will for the first time in its history put into force unified civil procedure rules applying to the whole country. To date, each of the 26 cantons apply different procedural statutes.

After receiving notice of an allegation of infringement from a trade mark owner, the receiving party is often put in the unenviable position of having to make a unilateral determination to either cease the activity at issue or continue with conduct that potentially violates a third party's rights while it waits to see if formal legal action is initiated.

Peter Ollier reports on the Australian government’s plans to introduce a hardline packaging regime for cigarettes, and how the tobacco industry plans to oppose it