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China's First Intellectual Property Service Alliance Established in Zhongguancun

China's First Intellectual Property Service Alliance Established in Zhongguancun

06/08/2013
A launching ceremony for China's first intellectual property service alliance was held in Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park on July 30, and a total of 53 intellectual pro
BRAZIL: Getting Closer to Madrid

BRAZIL: Getting Closer to Madrid

29/07/2013
Recent announcements from the Brazilian National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) and an approval on April 9, 2013 by the Brazilian Federal Government’s Forei

The Chinese government has published a 10-year patent strategy in Beijing

25/07/2013
China State Intellectual Property Office held a press conference in Beijing on November 11 and officially released the "National Patent Development Strategy (2011-2020)".Gan Shaoning, Deputy Director of SIPO said, the "National Patent Development Strategy

Consumer goods smuggling rises in Ho Chi Minh City in the first six months of this year

23/07/2013
HCM CITY — The market management bureau in HCM City reported last Friday that the illegal trading, transportation and storage of smuggled goods had increased in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year.

Taking the fight against the counterfeiters seriously

23/07/2013
Anyone working against counterfeiters will surely have faced the dilemma of whether to react to a trademark infringement, when there is limited hope of accomplishing any real results.

Copyright System Must “Adapt Or Perish,” WIPO Director Says

23/07/2013
The traditional copyright system’s balance for encouraging yet controlling access to copyrighted works in order to extract value for them has met with a destructive force in the internet that it cannot overcome without changing itself, the head of t

Trade mark changes under way in Taiwan

23/07/2013
A set of draft amendments designed to strengthen trade mark protection and harmonise with international standards are under discussion in Taiwan

Why India is sceptical about ACTA

26/06/2013
India has no plans to join the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as the country’s top IP official explained in a recent interview

Near-final ACTA draft published

26/06/2013
The latest, near-final draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) sets out basic standards for enforcement – but does not go as far as many critics feared

Five areas for global patent reform

26/06/2013
Years of deadlock in WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents have been broken after members agreed to focus work on five substantive issues.

Rice maker overturns trade mark in Malaysia

26/06/2013
A Malaysian court has invalidated a trade mark for a type of Indian rice in one of the first cases in the country to deal with geographical indications

Numeral marks held to be confusingly similar

26/06/2013
In Companhia Muller de Bebidas v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case T-472/08, September 3 2010), the General Court has reversed a decision of the Board of Appeal of OHIM in which the latter had found that there was no likelihood