The Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs has published its amended guidelines that govern hearings in trademark cases. The revisions aim to streamline and enhance the process of deciding disputes by introducing remote and preliminary hearings and provisions on judges’ disclosure of inner convictions.
IAM’s Special Report 2024 Q2 "Money, money, money” reports deeply on the growing breadth of IP financial products spreading across the globe
The Wenzhou Court has affirmed that words with certain influence and popularity are protectable under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in a trademark-squatting case brought by tech giant Xiaomi. For rights holders of voice-activation command prompts, it is crucial to prove that their names help to identify the source of goods or services.
Patent valuation involves numerous economic considerations. It also requires a technical understanding of the technology covered by the patent and the clarification of issues
29 January 2008
In July 2005 10 of the world’s leading companies in the field of electronics and a US university filed 15 patent litigation actions against a major German DVD replicator on the grounds that the German parts of 15 European patents were essential to implement the MPEG-2 technology standardised by the International Standardisation Organisation and the International Electrotechnical Commission
29 January 2008
IP rights experts believe that intellectual property is the key to India’s expanding knowledge economy. Having grown in leaps and bounds, the Indian IP industry is fast reaching new heights.
29 January 2008
Even patent practitioners find it hard to rationalise the complexities of the European patent system. To start with, there is no one European system, but rather two distinct systems through which patents can be granted in European countries.
29 January 2008
In recent years the securitisation of various types of intellectual property has evolved from a small niche market utilised by individual artists or thinly capitalised companies to a broader corporate financing tool used to facilitate mergers and acquisitions, stock buy-backs and risk transference to investors.
29 January 2008
In recent years there have been some significant changes to intellectual property in Switzerland.
29 January 2008
Iceland is a relatively large country but has a small population – its 300,000-strong inhabitants are spread over an area of 103,000 square kilometres, although the vast majority (60 per cent) live in and around the capital, Reykjavik.
29 January 2008
This chapter looks at the possible conflicts that can arise between intellectual property and the competition process and free market access in Mexico. It also analyses the approach of the Federal Competition Commission to this issue.
29 January 2008
The written description requirement in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries is based on a unique, everevolving factual situation necessitating the application of what would otherwise be a technology-neutral statute. In light of the range of issues presented, drafting, prosecution and enforcement strategies have become more complicated, with the courts providing a rather ambiguous guide as to what is sufficient.
29 January 2008
The last 12 months have seen some interesting developments in Swedish IP law, including significant changes to the patent legislation and a government inquiry into copyright protection for music and film on the Internet, as well as a number of interesting judgments.
29 January 2008
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