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Paula Pei of Panawell discusses the need to register a Chinese language mark, the different ways to choose a Chinese language mark and the challenges businesses may face when registering such marks

Vivien Chan and Ann Xu of Vivien Chan & Co. analyse the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and its impact on IP cases in China

Paul Ranjard and Zhu Zhigang of Wanhuida examine the different cases selected by the Supreme Court in 2019, including those involving position trademarks, OEM processes, and prior use

Singapore design registrants are able to enjoy greater benefits from March 19 2020 as the city-state has become the 58th member to join the Locarno Agreement, an international agreement on classification of industrial designs.

The new trademark law implementing the EU Directive has been applicable since December 11 and has introduced important changes.

On October 2 2019, Brazil joined the Madrid protocol. The success of this can be proven by numbers.

Although there are several and severe restrictions due to COVID-19 in Greece, which inevitably affect trademark practice in relation to both prosecution and litigation, there is some good news in the field. The new law on trademarks has come into force, implementing Directive (EU) 2015/2436.

Indirect infringement is not explicitly dealt with in the Turkish IP Law. However, the legislator confers, via Article 86 of the Industrial Property Code (IPC), a right to the patent holder to prevent third parties from supplying essential elements of the invention to unauthorised people, which will eventually lead to the working of the patented invention. In order for this provision to be implemented, third parties must be aware that these elements or instruments are sufficient to work the invention, and should be aware that they will be used for this purpose, or this situation should be clear enough.

As of December 2019, designs of trendy fashion items can be registered within 10 days in Korea.

A trademark application for Class 41 was filed under No 2018735958 with a priority date of August 20 2018.

In the future, it will be more difficult to obtain an injunction for patent infringement through preliminary injunction proceedings.

C.A. Brijesh and Sakshi Sharma of Remfry & Sagar examine the law on designs in India, detailing the requirements for design protection and assessing the overlap between this form of protection and copyright and trademark law