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The Japan Patent Office has reported that the Chinese trade mark authorities, responding to a request from Tokyo, rejected applications to register eight prefectural names in Japan as brands for agricultural and other products
Guangzhou passes the Measures on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights at Exhibitions in the city's 87th Executive Session of the 13th Administration
The UK High Court has granted its first-ever award of compensation under section 40 of the Patents Act 1977 to employees for making an invention belonging to their then employer for which a patent has been granted which has proved to be of outstanding benefit to that employer
In this case concerning counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags, the defendants were a couple called Lin Yizhong and Wu Beiwen and Zhong Wen was their trading company
In a dispute concerning downmarket fragrances intended to be smell-a-likes for several of L'Oreal's famous perfumes, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has provided guidance to the UK Court of Appeal which will be welcomed by many brand owners
The right to prohibit extraction and re-utilisation of a substantial part of a protected database was established more than a decade ago by Directive 969EC (the Database Directive
The English High Court has referred questions to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerning the meaning of several provisions of the Supplementary Protection Certificate Regulation (176892
