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

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

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.

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

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

Delegates from WIPO member states will gather in Geneva at the end of this month for the annual General Assemblies – with a proposal to reduce PCT fees, reforms to the Madrid Protocol and a report into WIPO's working practices at the top of the agen

Challenging jurisdiction could be an effective way for defendants to delay patent litigation in China, according to speakers at Managing IP’s Asia-Pacific IP Forum this week

Secretive negotiations are underway for an international anti-counterfeiting deal. But what will ACTA mean for Europe? Marlous Stal-Hilders of Nederlandsch Octrooibureau explains

Preparation, promotion and patience are three key requirements when working with Customs, according to speakers at the Asia-Pacific IP Forum

A US International Trade Commission report that attacked China’s indigenous innovation policies has been criticised by IP practitioners in the country

In two days of November 04- 05, 2010, in Hanoi Vietnam Office of Intellectual Property (VOIP) - Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) coordinated with ASEAN projects to protect Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III) to organize the Workshop on &ldquo