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On August 31, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopted a resolution to establish specialised courts for IP cases in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. 27 November 2014
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On June 14, 2013, Japan’s cabinet approved a draft of the nation’s future IP policies: Japan’s Basic Policies for the Protection of IP (BPPIP). 27 November 2014
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Companies wishing to obtain legal protection for their interior or exterior store designs in Turkey are faced with two options: register it either as a trademark or as an industrial design. 27 November 2014
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The European Commission’s Innovation Union proposals, launched in 2010, aimed to give companies and non-commercial research entities the legal means to protect the special knowledge they develop. 30 September 2014
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A bankruptcy is generally in no-one’s best interest, and worsens everyone’s position. 30 September 2014
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At the end of June 2014, the first law of employee inventions came into force in Romania. 30 September 2014
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Service invention has become a popular issue of late. Studies of service invention have shown that more than 60 percent of inventions for which patents are filed have been discovered through work performed under the umbrella of an employment relationship. 30 September 2014
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On June 19, 2014 the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Alice Corporation Pty Ltd v CLS Bank International (Alice), affirming the underlying Federal Circuit’s opinion finding all claims of the patent in suit invalid. 30 September 2014
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The principle of specialty of marks establishes that a trademark registration protects only those goods or services for which specific protection was granted. 30 September 2014
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BMW AG v Grandmark International (Pty) Ltd 2014 (1) SA 323 of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) is likely to have reduced the confidence of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to compete in the local market as holders of South African design registrations. 30 September 2014
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