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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

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.

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.

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

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

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